Although there are a lot of people around Xu Tonglu, most of them are here to join in the fun, like Chen Kaige, they came over to chat with Zhou Yan for a few words, and by the way, they answered a few questions about Xu Tonglu, and left.

After about ten minutes, there were a lot fewer people around Xu Tong Road.

And Xu Tonglu's thinking was also very clear, he saw that Xu Feng and Hou Xiaoxian were gone, so he stared at Zhou Yan and kept throwing questions to Zhou Yan.

After all, Zhou Yan is the protagonist of today, and if you want to dig it, you will also dig Zhou Yan.

Xu Tonglu: "Director Zhou, just now you said that this is your first feature film, have you ever made other forms of works before?" ”

Zhou Yan: "I made a short film before. ”

Xu Tonglu: "Is it convenient to reveal the name of the short film?" ”

Zhou Yan: "Lacewings." ”

Xu Tonglu: "How long will it take to shoot "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly"? ”

Zhou Yan: "More than two months. ”

Xu Tonglu: "What about the release time?" ”

Zhou Yan: "The release time has not been determined for the time being. ”

Xu Tonglu: "This movie is your own soundtrack, have you ever worked on the soundtrack before?" ”

Zhou Yan: "I have participated in the soundtracks of "The Red Lantern Hangs High" and "Heaven's Reply" before, and I have also participated in the recent filming of "Farewell My Concubine". ”

Hearing Zhou Yan say this, Xu Tonglu also understood, no wonder Zhou Yan and Chen Kaige are so familiar with each other, it turns out that Zhou Yan has cooperated in the soundtrack.

Xu Tonglu has never heard of "Heaven's Reply", but "The Red Lantern Hangs High" and "Farewell My Concubine" have been frequently reported in the past two years, and they are both movies with very high national attention.

It was rumored that Zunlong was going to participate in "Farewell My Concubine", although he was not the president in the end, but Zhang Guorong was not bad, and he was also a popular star.

……

Zhou Yan chatted with Xu Tonglu alone for another six or seven minutes, then he looked at the time and said with a smile, "Reporter Xu, that's all for today's interview, we still have a scene to shoot in the morning, and I have to take the team to the set now." ”

Hearing Zhou Yan say this, Xu Tonglu didn't entangle anymore, after all, Zhou Yan was already very cooperative with him. Today may be the smoothest interview he has ever had in his career, and he has gained a lot.

"Well, okay, Director Zhou, thank you very much today." Xu Tonglu said gratefully.

Zhou Yan smiled, waved his hand and said, "No thanks, everyone is for work, by the way, after you go back, tell Sun Qin of the special group, I will spend half a day looking for him this weekend." ”

Sun Qin has been filming "The Forbidden City: Memory" recently, and has already filmed a lot, and told Zhou Yan some time ago that Zhou Yan would have time to watch the film.

It's just that Zhou Yan has been busy and didn't have time, so he thought that he would take a look at it this weekend while the actors were resting.

The reason why Yanjing TV sent someone over this time was also because Sun Qin learned the news of the start-up ceremony from Zhou Yan.

Xu Tonglu was a little surprised when he heard Zhou Yan say this, "Director Zhou, you know Director Sun of our station." ”

Zhou Yan laughed, "My relationship with him, you go to him, you will know." ”

After speaking, Zhou Yan waved his hand to Xu Tonglu and walked to the door.

The rest of the crew had already gone to CCTV at this time, and Wang Xiaoshuai was waiting for Zhou Yan at the door with the driver.

Looking at Zhou Yan's back, photographer Xiao Liu was still a little confused, "Brother Xu, it seems that Director Zhou is quite familiar with Brother Sun." ”

Unlike Xiao Liu, Xu Tonglu's brain turned very fast, and he remembered that the special team was filming a promotional film called "The Forbidden City: Memory" recently, and it seemed that the soundtrack director was from the Central Music Composition Department.

Could it be Zhou Yan?

"Let's go, let's go back too." Xu Tonglu beckoned to Xiao Liu, and he was about to go back to Sun Qin to ask.

……

Today's first scene is filmed when the parents of the little male protagonist received a letter written to them by his grandfather before he died, in which the grandfather told his parents that the little male protagonist did not fall on his head at all, his IQ was not problematic, and everything was disguised by the little male protagonist.

In this movie, all the scenes that have no requirements for the scene were filmed by Zhou Yan in the central sound, and from the perspective of the difficulty of filming, this scene of reading the letter is actually very simple, because there are very few scenes, and most of them are close-ups of the faces of the parents.

In other words, the only difficulty of this play is actually in the actors, to see if the actors themselves can grasp the feeling of reading the letter, as long as the performance is in place, this scene will be fine.

Although the crew is not poor, Zhou Yan is also a very film-saving director, before starting the film, this scene was rehearsed seven or eight times, until he thought that the expressions and lines of the two actors were in place, and then he told Zhao Fei to start the film.

"Power on."

"Hit the board."

"Once."

"Let's go."

Although I have only made a short film, when it comes to this set, it is also a familiar way.

……

Because it is not a live radio, after the film is turned on, Zhou Yan will talk next to him and give some instructions to the actors.

"Yes, my father came and sat down."

At this time, after reading the letter, my father looked up first.

"Mother also looks up ......"

When filming on the spot, it is impossible for the actors to really read the letter, one is a waste of time, and the other is that the speed of reading the letter is not the same, so if they really let them read it by themselves, they will definitely not be able to grasp the time, so the director can only control the voice during the filming.

This scene went very smoothly, the scene was originally simple, and it was rehearsed several times, so He Saifei and Zhu Shimao completed it very successfully.

"Okay, pass."

After Zhou Yan finished saying "pass", the scene burst into applause.

The first scene went so smoothly that everyone in the crew was very happy.

Isn't there a saying that a good start means half the battle, and in this way, they are half the success now.

Of course, this scene is over, not that the whole scene is over, and other scenes will be filmed later, but they are all relatively simple shots, such as the side shot of the father walking over, the close-up of the actor taking the letter from behind them when he reads the letter, and so on.

After all the shots arranged this morning were filmed, Zhou Yan also breathed a sigh of relief, and he asked Wang Xiaoshuai to inform everyone to call it a day and dinner.

Don't look at them, they finished filming these shots in more than an hour, but before he arrived on the set, Zhao Fei and Senior Lu had already taken the crew to start arranging.

These shots take a full day and a half from the preliminary preparation, to the official shooting, and then to the final ending, which is still a relatively simple one, and if it is difficult, it is normal to shoot for a few days.

At the end, Hou Xiaoxian walked over with a smile, "This is a good start, and the follow-up will definitely be smooth." ”

"I hope so." Zhou Yan said with a smile.

"Well, don't underestimate this good start, it has a very strong psychological hint to the staff. In the movies I have made over the years, it is obvious that if the first scene is not filmed well, there will be all kinds of problems later, and if the first scene is filmed well, the follow-up will be much smoother. ”

Zhou Yan nodded, Hou Xiaoxian was right, psychological suggestion is a very mysterious thing.

He smiled and asked, "Director Hou, you were watching from the side just now, do you have any suggestions for me?" ”

Hou Xiaoxian smiled and waved his hand, "This scene is relatively simple, and it doesn't pose any test to you, let's wait until we shoot other scenes later." ”

Although Hou Xiaoxian did not comment, he actually gave an evaluation, and he was very sure of Zhou Yan's level.

However, Zhou Yan knew that he had to thank Senior Lu, Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhao Fei, the three of them helped him a lot, including when he wrote the storyboard and storyboard earlier, these three people also gave him a lot of useful advice.

Especially in the arrangement of scenes, the final version of the decision is quite different from Zhou Yan's initial design, and the final scene design was discussed by the four of them together.

Among the four of them, Zhao Fei is undoubtedly the most experienced, and Senior Lu and Wang Xiaoshuai have very solid theoretical knowledge, and the most important thing is that Senior Lu and Wang Xiaoshuai showed very high enthusiasm.

From their graduation to the present, this is the first project they have been involved in, so it is only natural for them to pour their heart and soul into it. Like Zhou Yan, they hope that this movie can be completed well.

During this time, they often discussed together until eight or nine o'clock in the evening, sometimes it was even eleven o'clock as late, except for Wang Xiaoshuai, who would go home no matter how late it was, Zhao Fei and Senior Lu would go directly to Zhou Yan's dormitory to sleep if they were late.

Senior Lu is actually the hardest, but he is not in good health, and Zhou Yan will try to finish before nine o'clock in order to take care of his body, and will not let him stay up late.

After Hou Xiaoxian left, Zhou Yan took a look around the set and found that his younger brothers and sisters were helping the crew clean up their things.

During this time, Zhou Jiajun has been following Zhou Yan, and when the crew is busy, they will also help by the side.

At first, the crew knew that they were the director's younger brothers and sisters, and they were embarrassed to let them help, but then they couldn't stand their enthusiasm, and Zhou Yan seemed to acquiesce, so they began to let them do it, and after a long time, they gradually got used to it.

They are also very familiar with the crew during this time, the older ones are very diligent and help everywhere, although Lao Jiu can't help much, but she is cute, everyone in the crew wants to tease her.

Lao Jiu is playing with Yu Feihong at this time, although this girl never says it, but Zhou Yan knows that she is from the appearance association and prefers to play with good-looking people.

In fact, there was no Yu Feihong scene during this time, and Zhou Yan did not ask her to come to the set, but she still came every day, and after coming over, she would always watch carefully, and her work attitude and learning attitude were very good.

Zhou Yan walked over and took Lao Jiu's back collar, "Qing'er, follow your fourth sister when you eat for a while, don't run around." ”

Lao Jiu smiled and nodded, "Okay, third brother, don't worry, I definitely won't lose the fourth sister." ”

Zhou Yan sighed and said with a smile, "You are so powerful, do you want to take your seventh sister?" ”

As soon as he heard the seventh sister, Lao Jiu waved his hand again and again, "Third brother, I'd better follow the fourth sister." ”

If there are several brothers and sisters, who is most likely to beat Lao Jiu, it is Lao Qi Zhou Jing.

Lao Qi is the sister of Lao Ba and Lao Jiu, although now after high school, Zhou Jing rarely beats Lao Ba and Lao Jiu, but the childhood memories are too profound, and these two are still more cowardly to Zhou Jing.

Lao Jiu's cowardly appearance also made Yu Feihong laugh, "Ninth sister, it turns out that you also have people who are afraid." ”

"I'm respecting, Sister Feihong, I respect Sister Seven, just like respecting you." Lao Jiu said with a grin.

Hearing this, the smile on Yu Feihong's face became even brighter, Zhou Qing is like this, she is always able to say something that makes people like her.

"Third brother, I'm going to find the fourth sister, you can talk to Sister Feihong." After saying that, Lao Jiu ran away.

After Lao Jiu left, Zhou Yan smiled and asked Yu Feihong, "Do you have time to eat at noon?" ”

"Have time, is there something wrong with Director Zhou?"

Zhou Yan nodded, "There are some changes to your play, I just perfected the script, if you have time at noon, we will meet in the composition classroom, I will show you the new script, and I will also tell you about this play." ”

"Okay, no problem, can you go after dinner?"

Zhou Yan looked at his watch, "At one o'clock, we met in the composition classroom." ”

Yu Feihong smiled and nodded, "Okay." ”

……

At one o'clock at noon, when Zhou Yan arrived at the composition classroom, Yu Feihong was already waiting at the door.

"I've been waiting."

Yu Feihong shook her head with a smile, "No, I just arrived for a while." ”

Zhou Yan smiled, opened the door of the composition classroom, and after entering, he handed the script to Yu Feihong, "The other plays have not changed, the main thing is the part where the little male protagonist reunites with you, you can take a look." ”

Yu Feihong nodded and took the script from Zhou Yan's hand.

This script is not long, and Yu Feihong finished reading it in a few minutes.

Before she finished reading the script, a smile appeared on Yu Feihong's face, because the changed scene still improved her role a lot.

Originally, she was more like a symbol in this movie, and she didn't appear much, but she has always been in the heart of the little male protagonist, but now that this reunion scene has changed like this, her role has become very different.

In particular, there is a song in this scene, and when the movie is screened, when others hear "Reunion" in the future, what may come to mind is the picture of her hiding from the rain under the eaves.

Yu Feihong's first concern is also this song, "The "Reunion" played by the male protagonist in this place was also written by Director Zhou?" ”

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "You have heard this song, it is the one I played on stage on the day of the meeting." ”

"It turned out to be the ......"

Yu Feihong's thoughts flew back to the day of the meeting, she actually always wanted to ask Zhou Yan what the song was called, and even thought about asking Zhou Yan to record a version for her to listen to.

It's just that she is not familiar with Zhou Yan, so she is embarrassed to mention it.

"So that day's song was written for the heroine?" Yu Feihong asked.

Zhou Yan nodded, "Well, this scene was also thought of when I saw the rain that day." ”

Yu Feihong looked at Zhou Yan, there was a different color in his eyes, no wonder that song was so suitable for this plot.

With a smile in her eyes, she said, "Actually, there is a small piano where I live, but I can't play it, and it has always been an ornament." Director Zhou, at my age, is it okay to learn piano? ”

Zhou Yan nodded affirmatively, "Of course you can, I know a teacher who started playing the piano in his sixties, and now he is in his early seventies, and he also plays very well." Of course, if you want to go the professional route, it's unlikely that you can start now. ”

"I don't want to go the professional route, I just want to play songs like "Reunion" and "Stealing Joy".

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "That's easier, work hard, you can perform these two pieces well in one year, and if you have high talent, the time will be shorter." If you practice for a few more years and play "Croatian Rhapsody", it is not impossible. ”

"Can you teach me then?" Yu Feihong suddenly asked.

"That's not going to work, I'm very expensive." Zhou Yan made a joke, and then said, "My piano level is actually very average, if you want to learn, after the school starts, I can help you find a piano student to teach you, their level is much higher than mine." The teacher should not be good, the teacher of the piano department of our school basically only takes the students of the professional route. ”

Hearing Zhou Yan say this, Yu Feihong was slightly disappointed, and then smiled, "Then I won't learn for the time being, and I will concentrate on acting well first." ”

Zhou Yan nodded, "Well, in fact, the changed scene is relatively simple, but you have to pay attention to it, after hiding from the rain and entering the video store, your performance is different from before......"

Then Zhou Yan briefly talked to Yu Feihong about the play, and it only took about ten minutes.

Just as it was about to end, Yu Feihong finally mustered up the courage to ask, "Director Zhou, did you record the song "Reunion"?" Can you give me a cassette tape, I'll take it back and listen to it, and find out how it feels. ”

Zhou Yan nodded very dryly, "No problem, I have it in my dormitory, I'll bring it to you when I'm filming in the afternoon." ”

"Thank you, Director Zhou."

……

That night, Yu Feihong listened to the song "Reunion" recorded by Zhou Yan on tape over and over again, and felt that the more he listened to it, the better it sounded.

After listening to it many times, she slowly fell asleep to the beautiful tune.

In her dream, on her way back to school with her books, she suddenly encountered heavy rain and had to run to the eaves of a video store to escape the rain.

While sheltering from the rain, she was attracted by the beautiful sound of a piano coming from inside the video store, so she walked into the store with a book in her arms.

The person playing the piano was covered by the piano, and she slowly approached, first seeing the top of the other's head, then the eyebrows, eyes, and the bridge of the nose...... In the end, the person's face was finally revealed, and it turned out to be Zhou Yan.

Just when Zhou Yan was about to look up, Yu Feihong was suddenly woken up by a phone ringing.

She sat up and rubbed her hair, then ran to the living room to pick up the phone, and her mother's voice came from the other end of the phone, "Feihong, are you up?" ”

Yu Feihong said sleepily, "Well, get up, Mom, are you calling?" ”

"Can't I call you if it's okay?" The mother muttered, and then said, "Your sister will go to Yanjing next week, do you want her to bring you something?" Do you have enough clothes to wear, do you want her to bring you a few new ones? ”

"I have enough clothes to wear, what is my sister doing in Yanjing?"

"There's a project to go to Yenching Institute of Technology for docking, and after you go, let her live with you."

"Isn't there a guest house?"

"Do you want to live in a guest house? You two haven't seen each other for so long, you can't have a lot to say? ”

"You don't have to live together to talk......"

"That's it."

After hanging up the phone, Yu Feihong rubbed her eyes, ran to bed to make up for sleep, and wanted to continue the dream just now, but she couldn't sleep, so she turned on the tape recorder and played the song again.

……

The filming of "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" has been progressing smoothly, and the progress is even a little faster than Zhou Yan's previous plan.

When school is about to start, the scenes to be filmed in CCTV have basically ended, and there is only the last scene left - the scene where the little male protagonist plays "Croatian Rhapsody".

The reason why this one has not been filmed is because the orchestra has never done it.

When Zhou Yan talked to Xu Feng before, he said that the orchestra can't compromise, so Xu Feng is also cautious when looking for the orchestra.

In the end, it was worth the wait, because Xu Feng directly invited the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra over.

The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra has a long history and is definitely the leading orchestra in China, and they can be invited because Tomson Group's relationship in Shanghai is really strong, and on the other hand, they are also very interested in this piece from Croatia.

It was not until September 27 that the orchestra arrived in Yenching.

But fortunately, they have already rehearsed in Shanghai in advance, so after coming, as long as they practice with Lang Lang for another day or two, it should be no problem.

From September 28th to September 29th, the orchestra and Lang Lang practiced together for a total of 12 hours in two days.

This scene is still quite difficult, because there are a lot of people involved, and the scene has to be recorded, and finally this opportunity is encountered, of course, they have to record the audio track of this section, and they can't find the orchestra to re-record it later.

In order to enhance the atmosphere of the scene, Zhou Yan also pulled a lot of students from the school and filled the concert hall.

Now that the school is about to start, many students have already arrived.

……

Yu Ran and Fang Xiu were the first to respond, and they also helped pull many people together in the class.

In fact, it is not difficult for people to pull at all, as soon as I heard that someone was filming at the school, and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra was invited, the enthusiasm of the students was very high, and I could watch a high-level orchestra performance for free, and which music student could resist?

At first, Yu Ran and Fang Xiu also had the same idea, thinking that they were just coming to listen to a free concert, but after arriving at the scene, they found that it was not so simple.

After everyone comes over, they have to sign in, and then the on-site staff will assign seats to each of them.

The rules for arranging seats are very simple and straightforward, that is, try to arrange the good-looking ones in the front.

So it was more advanced.

But being at the front is not a good thing, because the higher the front, the higher Zhou Yan's requirements.

"After the shooting starts in a while, you have to look at my gestures, don't make expressions and movements lightly......"

The reward plus more is over, and there is still a chapter of monthly pass plus more, and it will be returned tomorrow

(End of chapter)