After the release of "The Red Lantern Hangs High", most of the heat is still concentrated on the heroine Gong Li, and there is some heat left, director Zhang Yimou accounts for some, and the third aunt He Saifei also accounts for some.

However, they ate meat and gnawed bones, and Zhou Yan could be regarded as following behind and sucking a mouthful of soup.

Because the movie is too popular, even if Zhou Yan just takes a sip of soup, the effect exceeds his previous expectations.

He was already quite famous in school, and many people knew him on the way, and after the release of "Hang the Red Lantern", there were even girls who went to the classroom of their composition department to see him.

Especially some of the junior sisters of the 91st class, they just came to the school and didn't know Zhou Yan very well, and they heard that it was the senior brother of the composition department who played Chen Feipu, so they all ran over to take a look curiously.

Of course, most of the time, they will pounce, because Zhou Yan now goes to class less often, and most of the time he still runs to Yanjing Studio.

In Yanjing Studio, the feeling of being a star is much lower, because there are a lot of big directors and famous actors in the studio, and Karami, who has just played a small role, is not worth mentioning at all.

Although sometimes everyone jokes that Zhou Yan is also a popular student now, in their eyes, Zhou Yan's main identity is still a soundtrack director.

In addition to going to Yanjing Studio, Zhou Yan spent the rest of his time preparing for his semester work, and his semester work this semester was "Croatian Rhapsody".

He is not in a hurry about this, because he has already found people, and the score has been given to them, during this time they are all practicing alone, and after a few days, take the time to take them to practice together a few times, there should be no problem.

On the morning of December 30, before going to the Qin Building, Zhou Yan first went to the cafeteria for breakfast, and when he was queuing, a girl in front of him looked at him secretly for a long time, and then whispered, "Why is it so dark?" ”

When Zhou Yan played Chen Feipu before, his skin was very white and tender, and he tanned a lot while filming, although he recovered a lot during this time, he was still a little dark.

It is estimated that Zhou Yan himself is not as white as in the movie, so the girl is a little disappointed.

The girl's voice was very small, but Zhou Yan still heard it, and he said with a smile, "I'm sorry, junior sister, I disappointed you." ”

Hearing Zhou Yan's words, the junior sister screamed, then covered her face all of a sudden, and ran out of the cafeteria embarrassedly.

Seeing that the girl was gone, Zhou Yan smiled, yes, he was one step closer to breakfast.

After breakfast, Zhou Yan went to the piano room, and the few of them had already arrived in advance.

Seeing Zhou Yan, Fang Xiu said with a smile, "Senior Brother Zhou Yan, you can't put on your hat and sunglasses when you go out now, I think Hollywood big stars do it like this." ”

Zhou Yan laughed, "No, showing your face is my benefit to fans." ”

Fang Xiu gave a thumbs up, "Look, this is the consciousness that a star should have." ”

Zhou Yan waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's start practicing quickly, we will practice together in two days, and we don't have much time to practice together." ”

"Okay."

When preparing, Fang Xiu asked again, "Senior Brother Zhou Yan, next year's graduation work, are you going to play this "Croatian Rhapsody" or "Memories of the Forbidden City"?" ”

Zhou Yan shook his head, "It's not decided yet, and it may not be either." ”

"Senior Brother Zhou Yan is going to write a new tune again?" Yu Ran blinked, with a little expectation in his eyes.

Zhou Yan shrugged, "I have an idea, I haven't started writing yet, anyway, it's still early, let's see." ”

The people present all smiled when they heard Zhou Yan say that it was still early, but in fact, it was not too early.

The composition is very important, and most people will prepare it a long time in advance, after all, writing a song is a very time-consuming thing, and it is normal to write a song in a few months.

It's the end of December, and there are less than six months left before the graduation performance, so if it takes a few months to write the piece, the rehearsal time will be much tighter.

Not to mention that Zhou Yan only has one idea now, and he hasn't written it yet. If this is delayed, it may not start until next year, and the time may not be in time.

However, Zhou Yan really doesn't need to be in a hurry, even if the new song is not written in the end, "Memories of the Forbidden City" and "Croatian Rhapsody" are enough for him, and the school does not stipulate that semester works cannot be used as graduation works.

And the performance of the graduation work will not affect Zhou Yan's graduation.

For other students, the graduation project is the last assignment to be handed in, but for Zhou Yan, the graduation project is just the last display of his student days.

Besides, they have all seen the speed of Zhou Yan's composition, and it may only take him a week or two for others to write a piece in a few months.

……

After practicing in the piano room in the morning, Zhou Yan went to Yanjing Studio again in the afternoon, but this time he did not enter the main building, but went to the location in the courtyard.

The studio of "Farewell My Concubine" has almost been done, and when Zhou Yan arrived, the artist Yang Zhanjia was taking the scenery masters to build the archway of the theater garden.

This was originally the old Yanjing street formed during the filming of "Camel Xiangzi", but at that time it was only half done, and there were only shops in the north, and now in order to build a gate for the troupe in "Farewell My Concubine", they are going to build five more streets on the other side.

The gate of the opera garden is at the intersection of the two streets, Gaotai Mountain, and the two scenery masters are making the archway at the door.

"Old man, you're busy."

Zhou Yan walked over with a smile, first gave a cigarette to Yang Zhan's family, and then gave a cigarette to the other two scenery masters.

Yang Zhanjia was originally in the archway with one foot, but after taking the cigarette, he stepped out, and then lit the cigarette with a smile, "Director Zhou, how did you have time to come to the location today?" Pushing us along? ”

There are regulations on the location that smoking is not allowed in the studio, so Yang Zhanjia stepped out to light a cigarette.

"I'm here to learn." Zhou Yan looked at the archway and said with a smile, "The progress has been very fast in the past two days, has it been built inside?" ”

Yang Zhanjia nodded, "Well, it's already set up, Zhang Guorong and they came here just now, and they are practicing in it." ”

Hearing that Zhang Guorong came here to practice, Zhou Yan asked, "Will you all practice here in the future?" ”

"I don't know, why don't you ask yourself?"

Zhou Yan nodded, looked up at the archway again, and couldn't help but sigh, "This scene is really beautiful." ”

This sentence is a compliment, but it is also Zhou Yan's sincere words, when the world sees a movie, most people only know the actors and directors, but it is difficult to know the hardships and greatness behind the scenes.

When he was in the crew of "The Red Lantern Hangs High" before, Zhou Yan didn't have much feeling about the scenery, because the red lanterns were all borrowed scenes, so they were directly arranged in the Qiao family's compound, basically only using the scenery, that is, adding some props on the original basis.

But "Farewell My Concubine" is different, there are many scenes in this movie.

Zhou Yan has seen Yang Zhan's hand-drawn paintings, these opera gardens are really painted by Yang Zhan's family one by one, and I heard the old man say that he ran a lot of places in order to design these scenes.

In the end, the theater garden was designed, using the stage of the Xiangguang Hall and the box of the Yangping Hall, each taking their advantages.

In some places, the lighting is not very good, and the old man's Red Star camera has no flash, so he can't take pictures, so he can only use his brain to record the details and draw them when he comes back.

Not only the big scenery, there are some details are also very labor-intensive, such as the "old-fashioned" on the stage, that is, the tent used in the performance and the background of the background, in order to achieve the effect, the factory specially invited the teachers of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts to produce the draft, and then invited the Yanjing Opera Costume Factory to organize a lot of embroidery, and it took a lot of genius to embroider it.

The "old-fashioned" Zhou Yan watched it with Xu Feng once before, and the texture was indeed very high-end, Xu Feng also liked it very much, and said that after the filming was over, he would collect the old-fashioned.

The movie "Farewell My Concubine" can be so good, and it is naturally inseparable from these behind-the-scenes work.

Zhou Yan has nothing to do, not only to see their progress, but also to have a good relationship with these behind-the-scenes personnel, especially Yang Zhan's family, maybe he will make movies again in the future, and he also has a high demand for scenery, so it will be easier to find the old man for help when the time comes.

After chatting with Yang Zhanjia under the archway for a while, Zhou Yan walked into the garden.

Zhang Guorong was practicing alone in the garden, and when he saw Zhou Yan coming, he didn't stop.

When this scene was finished, Zhou Yan applauded, and Zhang Guorong smiled and said, "Director Zhou, you're here." ”

In the past few months, Zhang Guorong has made great progress, not only in his drama practice, but also in Mandarin.

However, the accent is not something that can be eliminated in a few months, Zhang Guorong's Mandarin still has a bit of an accent, of course it is very good when he communicates in ordinary times, but if it is put in the movie, it is still a bit of a jump, and it is estimated that he will have to find a dubbing later.

"You're alone today? What about He Wuming? Zhou Yan asked.

"Boss He has something to do today, so I can't come, I'm the only one here."

When Zhang Guorong spoke, he was soft and playful, and he was pinching his orchid fingers.

Zhou Yan knew that he was in order to better integrate into the role of Cheng Dieyi, so he usually kept this state.

However, he was also disliked by some people, and the most obvious manifestation was Zhang Fengyi.

Usually Zhang Fengyi doesn't come here, but every time he comes, he keeps a distance from Zhang Guorong, and he also said that when he sees Zhang Guorong like that, he can't stand it and has goosebumps all over his body.

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Come over and take a look around." ”

"I've been looking for you for the past two days." Zhang Guorong smiled, and then said, "Let's go out and talk." ”

Zhang Guorong is very addicted to smoking, and he is uncomfortable when he is practicing, so he asked Zhou Yan to go out and say, naturally he wanted to light a cigarette.

When the cigarette was lit, Zhang Guorong asked Zhou Yan with a smile: "Director Zhou, do you know Director Guan Jinpeng?" ”

(End of chapter)