After talking to Xiao Can and them about moving the office, Zhou Yan was about to leave, and Huo Jianqi suddenly remembered something, "By the way, Director Zhou, Zhu Lin has feedback on weight loss, and she is now one hundred and five pounds." ”

"How much did she have?" Zhou Yan asked.

"It turned out to be one hundred and eighteen pounds."

Zhou Yan frowned, "Is she losing weight faster, you tell her to pay attention to her health, it's just a movie, don't collapse your body, the gains outweigh the losses." And this drama doesn't need her to be particularly thin, it's almost fine. ”

Although Lin Lin's character is on the thin side, she is not the skinny kind.

Zhou Yan asked Zhu Lin to lose weight a little so that he could get closer to the character, what he thought was that there were still a few months before filming, and Zhu Lin would just lose weight slowly, and there would be no damage to his body.

But how long has it been, Zhu Lin has lost thirteen pounds, and there is a high probability that she usually eats very little.

If you lose weight like this, not to mention the damage to your body, you may also regain weight.

Zhou Yan is not a paranoid person who pursues art, and in his eyes, no matter how great a work is, it should not be completed at the cost of damaging the body.

It is appropriate for actors to gain and lose weight for the role, but it must also be controlled within a reasonable range.

Huo Jian nodded and said, "Well, I understand, I'll remind her." ”

Zhou Yan thought for a while and asked, "Does she have any other scenes to shoot during this time?" ”

"There is a play that is a supporting role, and there are not many scenes, it seems to be over in a few days, and then there will be no other scenes for the time being. I talked to her about this, and she meant that she would not take on other plays during the rest of the year, and concentrate on preparing for "Spring in the Cattle Herding Class". ”

"In this case, let her come to Yanjing, I will arrange her to work in the state-owned electronics factory for a period of time, and let her eat in the studio canteen every day."

In the movie, Lin Lin is set as a female factory worker, and letting Zhu Lin go to the production line to familiarize herself with the lives of the workers will definitely be useful for her to create a role in the future.

The most important thing is to eat in the studio cafeteria and fix the calorie and nutritional structure of her three meals a day, which can ensure that she does not regain weight and can maintain her good health.

Zhou Yan didn't want to hear the news that Zhu Lin had gained weight or collapsed her body in order to lose weight after a while, and it would be troublesome to find other actors at that time.

In fact, Zhou Yan was most afraid that Zhu Lin would lose weight by herself and lose her complexion too badly.

Speaking of which, there is also an advantage to making movies in recent years, that is, the actors are really cooperative, whether they are big or small, basically what the director says is what they are, and most of the requirements can be met.

It is common for actors to spend half a year or even several years preparing for a role before filming starts.

In the next twenty or thirty years, actors who are a little bit of a coffee will have to talk to you about the schedule when they come to the crew to film, and no one will do it if the preparation time for the movie is a little longer.

Not to mention the situation like Zhu Lin, she didn't have many scenes in "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class", so she paid too much for this drama, and Zhou Yan was a little unhappy.

Huo Jianqi didn't feel strange at all about Zhou Yan's decision, he felt that this was a matter of course, and actors should be like this.

"Understood, I'll tell Zhu Lin about this."

"Anything else?"

"Not yet."

Zhou Yan nodded and left the crew's office.

After leaving the Yanjing factory, Zhou Yan went to a bookstore and bought a copy of "Sense and Sensibility", and when he saw that there were other Jane Austen books next to him, he bought "Emma" and "Pride and Prejudice" as well.

After buying the book, Zhou Yan saw that there was no one in the bookstore, so he found a place to sit down.

Although the bookstore is not as quiet as at home, Zhou Yan still prefers to read books in the bookstore, probably because in the bookstore, there are books all around, and the aura is very suitable for reading.

Regardless of the times, "Sense and Sensibility" is not a great film, its story is old-fashioned, and its writing techniques are backward.

But there is no way to evaluate a work without setting aside the era, and in Jane Austen's time, her works clearly created an era.

Most of the old-fashioned love stories written by later generations can also be found in these works. And the reason why they have become classics is not only the precipitation of time, but also the credit of continuous learning by later generations.

Writers who write about love unconsciously imitate Jane Austen, so that Austen's shadow can be found in literature all over the world.

In Jane Austen's work, when designing the characters, it is like doing experiments in a laboratory, and often setting up a control group.

The title of the book "Sense and Sensibility" basically summarizes the main theme of the work, Henry's eldest daughter and youngest daughter, one rational and one impulsive.

The eldest daughter knows what she thinks and understands whether she can get it, and she will weigh the pros and cons to keep herself from being in an awkward position.

She likes someone, but at the same time she knows if she can get this love, if she finds difficulties, she will find a way to solve the problem, and if the problem cannot be solved in the end, she will also accept the reality.

The second daughter is all emotional, she doesn't think too much about other things, and when she treats feelings, she only looks at her own feelings.

This seemingly old-fashioned character setting, even after more than two hundred years, there are many literary works and film and television dramas in use.

For example, the domestic drama "The Three Thousand Golds of the Xia Family", the Goryeo TV series "Please Answer 1988", the American TV series "Bankruptcy Sisters", etc., all use the control group in the character design of these film and television works.

In most film and television works, if there are two brothers or two sisters in a family, then the personalities of the brothers or sisters must be different, and it is a very typical contrast.

Such a design is not in line with reality, but it must meet the requirements of the drama.

In the past, when Zhou Yan read "Sense and Sensibility", he would not think too much, although he would explore the themes and writing techniques when he read many books, but more often he was willing to take it easy and enjoy the pleasure of reading.

For a Chinese teacher, enjoying the pleasure of reading is actually a very rare thing, and it is too tiring to think so much when reading books outside of class.

But this time, after all, he was reading a book with a task, so Zhou Yan would also notice many details.

Since Jane Austen has set up a control group in the arrangement of the characters, when Zhou Yan does the soundtrack in the later stage, he is also going to make different types of soundtracks for her two daughters.

The two have different exclusive BGMs in each other's emotional stories, which can increase the intensity of character contrast and increase the tension of drama in hearing.

But the two types must not be too different, they must be cleverly blended together.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yan took out a pen and paper again and began to write out his thoughts.

After writing for a while, his stomach suddenly rumbled, and his stomach protested violently against him.

Zhou Yan raised his hand and looked at his watch, it was already half past one in the afternoon.

He stepped into the bookstore at ten o'clock, and it took him three and a half hours to finish reading "Sense and Sensibility", and he even missed lunch.

This book is quite long, with 200,000 words, if it weren't for reading it before, Zhou Yan wouldn't have been able to read it so quickly.

In order to stop his stomach from protesting, Zhou Yan walked out of the bookstore with three books, and he didn't bother to look for it, so he found a stall next to him and dealt with it briefly.

……

After Zhou Yan arrived home, he received a call from Zhang Youan.

He originally thought that Zhang Youan was here to tell him about the soundtrack of "Sense and Sensibility", but he didn't expect to guess wrong, Zhang Youan told him that Panasonic's advertisement was going to be launched.

"Oh, that's fast."

It's only been a long time since he handed over the finished product to Panasonic, and they're still running pretty fast.

In this era, this kind of advertising can basically only rely on television, unlike the later new media era, where the advertisement is done on the same day and can be placed on the network platform on the same day.

Panasonic must negotiate with the TV station first, determine the price and delivery time, their advertising this time will be put on CCTV, and CCTV's advertising does not mean that it can be inserted and broadcast at any time.

"They are also in a hurry, it will take another week for the domestic side to be officially launched, the neon side will be launched today, and it will also be launched in some countries and regions in Europe and Latin America."

Zhou Yan nodded, "Remember to ask them to settle the money for me quickly." ”

Zhang Youan laughed, "Are you short of money again?" ”

"Not yet, but there are many places to spend money later."

During this time, Zhou Yan didn't spend a lot of money, and Tomson gave him a lot of money, and he should have six or seven million yuan in his hand now.

However, Zhou Yan doesn't spend money, once he spends it, it is not a small amount, he wants to prepare in advance, otherwise he will have to be in a hurry when it comes time to spend money.

"I'll urge them to do this, Colombia has already started to talk about finding your soundtrack, and this order should be able to get a lot of money. The production cost of "Sense and Sensibility" is 16 million US dollars, which is not a small amount, and there should be a lot of money on the soundtrack. ”

"Are they going to pack it for me, or am I just responsible for writing the score?"

"This also depends on how to talk about it, anyway, you also have the ability to contract it here, if the price is right, I think it's better to contract it all."

"Well, if you can do it all, let's do it all."

During this time, the studio recruited a lot of people, and there were more than a dozen people in the music production alone, excluding the band.

As the team gets bigger and the expenses increase, it's easier to pull some packing jobs.

In fact, what Zhou Yan values is not the money for packaging, but mainly the formation of the team, he wants to give the team more training, only in this way can the team grow.

Many soundtrack artists are not alone, and they have a lot of people under their hands.

For example, HZ, it is said that his team has one or two hundred people.

Because there are so many people to support, he goes everywhere to pick up the work of the soundtrack, and he has contracted a lot of work in Hollywood.

With so much work, it is naturally impossible for him to write the soundtrack of every movie himself, and some movies he takes over the work without even touching his hands, and directly hands it over to the team to do.

The HZ model is very much in line with the factory nature of Hollywood.

Hollywood is a movie factory, and HZ's studio is a soundtrack factory.

Zhou Yan didn't think about forming a team as large as HZ, but the entire production process must be able to be made without the help of outsiders.

It is still up to him to write the general score, but some of the trivial work can be handed over to others, so that he can be liberated.

"Okay, there's progress in the negotiations with Colombia, I'll tell you."

"Hmm."

After hanging up Zhang Youan's phone, Zhou Yan began to write notes on the preparation of the soundtrack of "Sense and Sensibility" at home.

He first recorded the ideas that he had not finished writing in the bookstore, and then sorted them out.

After dinner in the evening, Zhou Yan was watching "Pride and Prejudice" on the sofa in the living room when there was a knock on the door outside.

Zhou Yan went over and opened the door, and Shizuka Kudo rushed directly into his arms and hugged him.

Shizuka Kudo buried her head in Zhou Yan's arms and said coquettishly, "I miss you." ”

Zhou Yan smiled and smoothed her hair with his hand, "You just parted in the morning, and you started thinking about me?" ”

"I don't see you for a minute, I miss you."

"Have you eaten?"

"What about the meal invited by the TV station, have you eaten?"

"Well, I just ate it."

Zhou Yan pulled Shizuka Kudo into the house.

Seeing the book buckled on the sofa, Shizuka Kudo asked curiously, "Are you reading?" ”

She walked over and struggled to read the words, "Uh...... What is slow and what is seen. ”

Of the five words, she recognized only three.

"Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's."

"I've heard this."

"There's a job in the back that has something to do with her, so research it in advance." Zhou Yan explained.

"Is it a soundtrack?"

"Well, the soundtrack."

"Chinese directors filmed?"

"No, it's a Hollywood movie, the director is Chinese, have you heard of An Li?"

Shizuka Kudo shook her head, "I haven't heard of it." ”

"You'll know about him later."

Shizuka Kudo nodded again, "Then you work, I won't bother you." ”

With that, she sat on the other side of the couch.

"I'll be done in a while." Zhou Yan turned on the TV with his hand, "You can watch TV for a while." ”

"Watching TV, doesn't it affect your reading?"

Zhou Yan smiled, "It's okay, I can see it in any environment, and I've already practiced it." ”

Shizuka Kudo nodded and didn't say anything more, but she silently turned down the sound of the TV to the lowest, still afraid that the noise would affect Zhou Yan.

Although Shizuka Kudo said not to disturb Zhou Yan, after watching TV for a while, she couldn't help but lie down on her side and pillowed her head on Zhou Yan's lap.

There was plenty of heating in the house, and Shizuka Kudo took off her coat not long after she came in, and she was wearing a cool dress at this time, with a suspenders on her upper body and a knee-length skirt on her lower body.

Zhou Yan looked at the book, and his hand unconsciously reached through her neckline.

When he turned the book, he took his hand out and turned a page, then put it back again.

When he was about to finish "Pride and Prejudice", Zhou Yan's hand began to dip down again.

Shizuka Kudo hurriedly pressed the hem of her skirt, "What are you doing?" ”

Zhou Yan said seriously, "Moisten your hands, so you can turn the page." (End of chapter)