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"Why do most stories come from the feeling of external stimuli? Because someone may see a message, or see a report, or see an article, or see a person, or see an event...... After this external stimulus, a thought will always linger in his mind. ”

So, after this idea was repeatedly upgraded, combined and flashed some bright spots in his mind, a story was born under a certain opportunity.

"Take Far Cry as an example, when I was in Fujian, I encountered a sudden incident, and I needed to rethink a story to make up for the loss caused by this unexpected incident. But what kind of story do you want? I was in a hurry, so I resented the person who caused this emergency, and hoped that he would fall into the sea in a plane, and then not die, so I was trapped on the island, and life and death were unpredictable, tormenting him. ”

"Then I thought again, just trap him, what if he escapes? Will he come to me, the one who cursed him? So...... When I wanted to continue thinking deeply, it suddenly occurred to me that this is not in Fujian. Isn't this just by the sea? Can't I just shoot a movie on location about trapped or thrilling people on an island? ”

So, where does the story begin? It's definitely not okay to write domestic stories, there are many people in Fujian who go abroad, and you can write stories about overseas Chinese......"

"Well, the story ends here, it's the source of my feelings from external stimuli, and the source of my creation. Next, I can't just feel after being stimulated, if I want to write a good story, I have to rely on my large number of readings and experience watching a lot of stories to combine my films. ”

So, do you think the movie "Far Cry" is similar? Have you seen it somewhere? But can't find the exact original? That's the story I've put together with many, many experiences. It's not stunning, but it's mature enough. In many cases, we have to learn to write stories like this first, and then we have to think about writing the stories of "The Single Zoo" and "Pacific Rim." ”

He Fang said this in one breath, and his saliva was dry, so he picked up the water bottle and prepared to drink saliva, and at this time the audience burst into warm applause.

He Fang is really talking about dry goods, he doesn't talk about big truths, and he doesn't talk about anything obscure, it's the simplest and most direct content that everyone can understand.

"Of course, the way I just said is the creation of most cases, but, but, ah, there is also a situation where a screenwriter suddenly receives a story request from the producer or investor, which is what we call a proposition essay. In this case, what do you use to create your work? ”

"That's right, or is it what I call a combination of experiences to create, and after we receive a proposition, we first give a general direction, such as comedy? Tragic? Or is it pure plot? Is it the big male lead, or the big heroine, or is it a group play? Once we've determined the general direction, we start collecting the relevant materials. ”

"After that, our creation is based on these materials and previous knowledge to combine them, such as the combination of plots, characters, backgrounds, lines, etc."

"Students who are engaged in drama, think about it, for example, if you want to write a love story, is the first thing that flashes in your mind is the template of the love story you have seen? Then you can combine the materials you have collected from these templates to write your own love story. ”

"So, don't rely too much on inspiration, because inspiration is such a thing...... It's just imaginative, it's a mysterious thing that jumps out of experience and templates. How hard is this kind of thing? I believe that someone will not have a few times in their life. So, if our plays are all about inspiration, you probably won't be able to write a few stories in your lifetime. ”

"There are people who write one or two bestsellers by inspiration and never write a new book. Inspiration is a good thing, but inspiration, in turn, can sometimes shackle us. ”

As soon as He Fang finished saying this paragraph, the audience suddenly burst into warm applause, which made some people who were always stuck in the play uninspired seem to have a sense of relief and enlightenment.

yes, why bother with inspiration and uniqueness?

"You can go and watch common movies such as romance movies, action movies, and urban movies in history, and if you summarize them, you will find that most of the stories are very similar."

"Of course, what you have to do is to make your own characteristics in a roughly similar story routine, such as my "Far Cry", some people say it's showing off your figure, and I don't object to it."

When He Fang said this, the audience immediately caused the students to laugh.

"So with that said, we solve the question of 'where does the story come from?' that I mentioned at the beginning. Let's move on to the next topic, are there any routines and skills in the play? ”

He Fang looked at everyone after speaking.

"Yes."

The students in the audience answered in unison.

"Yes, there are routines and skills, have you read the books "Basic Writing Skills for Movies", "Stories", and "Thirty-six Story Models"? Don't tell me I haven't seen it, if you haven't seen it, I'll doubt your professionalism. ”

"Haha......" the audience laughed.

"These are the story routines and techniques, what are the drama skills? Theme, structure, plot, characters, dramatic conflicts, lines......"

Don't say it, when you talk about it, it is full of dry goods, and both the students and the old school in the audience nod frequently.

Some of the contents may have been talked about in schools, but He Fang pulled down the lofty things that some schools talked about.

It doesn't feel that complicated for the students.

For example, when he talks about the development of the storyline of the movie, he introduces it like this: "What is the story of the movie? It's like throwing a stone into a calm pond. ”

At this time, the ripples of the stones frightened the fish and disturbed the aquatic plants, and a series of reactions came. And then the story in the pond happened, because the stone intervened to destroy the love life of the carp and another fish, and the silver carp, who happened to be washed by the water waves, found that the carp was talking to his wife, and at this time, a black fish was frightened by the impact of the water waves and bit the silver carp to death, so the carp's object wanted to avenge her husband......"

With He Fang's casual nonsense, the audience laughed again and again, but I had to admire He Fang's reasonableness.

"Therefore, the play is how to throw the stone well, how to write these ups and downs of trivial reactions wonderfully."

……

For an hour, He Fang tried his best to talk about everything he thought of, and the students in the audience really benefited a lot, after all, He Fang provided a different way of thinking, and the play was simple and obvious, not so profound.

After a 15-minute break after the lecture, He Fang communicated with the teachers at the school, and these teachers seemed to have some 'this kid is a little level' from the beginning of the unconvinced and down-looking eyes.

After that, there is a discussion session, where the students are encouraged to come up with their scripts, and then they are asked to diagnose them, and who is to tell them where the problem is.

This is active, after all, they are students of the film school, and the first step is to liberate the shamelessness of nature, so they are not as twisted as students from other schools.

After the interaction between He Fang and the students, and the specific discussion of the play, this made the students have a deeper understanding of many things in the play.

For example, some people have been stuck in the cycle of explaining and explaining, just trying to explain why the character does this, for fear that the logic will not be self-consistent, and the result will be like an old lady's footwrap that stinks and grows.

Another example is that some people are stuck in not being able to control the rhythm and don't know when to put it and when to put it away.

There are even some people who don't know enough about common sense, because they haven't experienced actual filming, so they think that a 120-minute script refers to 120 scenes, and then write a page for each scene.

In fact, this is dogmatism, the so-called one page and 120 minutes for a scene refers to 120 scenes, that refers to theory, and a scene is a page of paper, and what is written on the paper is not all plots, there are other things.

For example, it will be marked with environment, lighting, art, and performance requirements...... The page that comes down like this does not refer to the plot page.

He Fang told them the real actual shooting, maybe a 100-minute movie is about 80 scenes, of course, it is not fixed, and some scenes are long and short.

If you go by word count, that's about 25,000 to 28,000 words for a 100-minute movie.

Of course, there are also people who are stuck in writing characters, always don't know how to write good characters, and always feel that their characters are not characteristic.

Where to let them look at the nine-fold personality, that is, to see what the person with each personality is roughly like, which is conducive to character building.

At the same time, he also pulled out a model of his usual character building.

There can be N kinds of protagonist shaping, mainly because the supporting roles are sometimes difficult to match, and some people write that there are only protagonists in the story, and there are no supporting roles.

He Fang introduced the seven types of supporting roles, such as:

Mentor type

A supporting character that gives the protagonist the right knowledge and concepts.

Amour

The protagonist's favorite object is usually the (male) heroine. It has a great impact on the mood of the protagonist and is an important character that affects the changes of the entire plot.

Assisted

often appears inseparably with the protagonist, and there are necessary roles to share difficulties and wealth.

Mystical

There will be obvious positive or negative effects on the protagonist, and he will never be named himself, and he will usually be deified.

Competitive

The strength must have an advantage over the protagonist, but the protagonist will be excited or intimidated by the protagonist's hidden strength. It will not hinder the progress of the protagonist, but will promote the growth of the protagonist and become an opponent who can compete with him.

Harlequin type

often pulls people back and does very grotesque, absurd, and funny things.

Framed

Fight against the protagonist.,Frame the protagonist in order to get the protagonist or look unpleasant to the protagonist.。

In addition to the assistance type and the love type, the other supporting character types can be decent or villains.

He Fang's model came out directly and attracted the cheers of the students, and many people were distressed because they couldn't write supporting roles, but they didn't expect He Fang to be on dry goods one after another.

Of course, this not only made the students listen to the class, but also made Wu Jing's eyes shine, he has not received any professional training, but he has always had a dream of directing.

As he said, if you want to make a movie, you must pass the drama level, but he is a non-professional and has read a lot of scripts, but he has to write ......

Therefore, He Fang's explanation of the play is very useful to him.

As soon as the drama class in the morning was finished, everyone was around Hefang, and He Fang also patiently answered many questions.

At noon, he and Wu Jing went to the Nortel canteen to eat, and neither of them had ever been to the Nortel canteen to eat, so they wanted to try it.

Nortel's meals are still good, the same as the restaurant, but they are more home-cooked than the restaurant, which is very delicious.

The most important thing is that there are dishes from all over the world, and they are relatively authentic, and there is no taste of Hunan cuisine made into Sichuan cuisine.

Some of Nortel's teachers and leaders ate here with He Fang.

"Director, it's a good thing I'm here to listen to your class today, otherwise I think I'll miss out on hundreds of millions. Alas, this is the sadness of non-academic background, it is really too far away. Wu Jing sighed.

"Don't say you're not a major, I think we have problems with Nortel's teaching methods, I thought Director He graduated from Pheasant University in the United States, but this lesson made me see a really different gap. Our teachings are still the teachings of the last century, no, we have to change. A teacher in the Department of Literature sighed.

"Ha, the teacher has won the award, in fact, I also figured it out from practice, just a little bit of my experience." He Fang said modestly.

……

At noon, He Fang squinted slightly at the back of the labeling room, and then was notified that it was time.

It's just that he was taken aback as soon as he came on stage, why are there so many more people than in the morning?

"Something is wrong, why are there so many people? It seems that there are still some people who don't like the content of the drama so they didn't come in the morning, but the students who study drama don't panic, your status will be discovered by everyone sooner or later. ”

"No, they've slept in the morning." Suddenly, someone shouted.

"Haha......" The audience burst into laughter.

"Okay, sleeping lazily is not a good habit, we have to hurry up in the afternoon, come, let's talk about the director first, I know that many people are in a hurry to learn this, and it is also the second secret of the success of the movie. The first secret is the play, and the second secret is the director. If both the playwriter and the director are successful, it will be difficult for your film to succeed or not. ”

"The director is so deep, the directors sitting in the audience are all masters, and I am a little newcomer in the director class, so when I talk about the wrong place, please Haihan."

"Then let's start ...... officially"

He Fang picked up the water bottle and took a sip of water.

"There are several major contents in the director's part: first of all, what is the part that the director wants to create? Secondly, the routines and skills of the director's creation, and finally what do I think of a good director? ”

"I know that when someone hears that the director wants to create something, some people think that the director wants to create everything in the whole film. Whether it's a play, or photography, art, lighting, makeup, music, etc., almost everything needs the director's guidance, as well as creation, and the director is what he says. ”

"When someone thinks so, this must be a bad movie director, no doubt, 100 percent. Even if this kind of director can occasionally win an award, it will definitely not be mixed. ”

As soon as He Fang said this, some people in the audience suddenly snorted, and some even sneered.

"Directors are divided into two kinds in the eyes of many people, one is a commercial film director, and the other is an art film director. However, I personally think that no matter what kind of director you are, you have to follow a principle, and that is to tell a story that the audience can understand. ”

"If you get out of this category and you blow your art up again, then I think you're laughing at yourself and not making a movie."

When He Fang said this, there was a sudden 'bang' from the audience, and he stood up and walked out alone.

It is estimated that it is not in agreement with the concept of He Fang, and everyone is staring at He Fang, this scene is a bit embarrassing.

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