A day later, Don met the crew members in the CAA office.

Director Thorn, assistant director Jose, and set artist Brewer. Mike, the agent, is also on the list, but his role is only to introduce you.

"This is the photographer Donde, and now the gaffer Wadden is missing." After Mike introduced him, the others greeted Don De one after another.

Except for director Thorn, the bearded man, who leaned back in his chair, just raised his eyes to look at him, and didn't even say a word.

Tang De didn't say much when he saw his style, and sat next to the assistant director after shaking hands with the other two people.

In the next second, Thorn spoke: "Let's start directly, Donde, you can tell him the specific information when Walden comes, no problem, right?" ”

Although it is an inquiry, the tone does not mean to inquire at all.

Don De looked at the others and found that they all seemed to be used to it, so he didn't refute it.

"Okay, let's get started." Thorn nodded to himself, then threw a stack of papers to them: "This is the storyboard of the MV, let's see, what's wrong." ”

Tang De picked it up and looked at it briefly, it was very sloppy, only some general scenes and pictures, the dynamics of the characters and the angle of the camera were simply omitted, highlighting a trouble-free.

However, the shooting of the MV itself is not difficult, or the role of the director is not great, especially rap. Unless it's a MV that values creativity and plot, the director does more work like a nanny to take care of the front and back.

But this is different from what Tang De wants, what's the use of shooting a MV casually, he is not a person who wants to wait for death.

So he immediately started to ask about the content of the storyboard: "Director, do I think it's a little simple?" ”

Both José and Brewer tapped their chins, which was also their idea, and just shot some scenes of black neighborhoods, with two people sitting by the door singing duet, and then interspersed with some nights of singing together to make up the whole content of the music video.

Not even the scene has changed much, only one scene is far from the block, but there is only one.

For them, this kind of MV is not too easy, and they can shoot three times a day, which is really boring.

But Thorn didn't seem to think so, and he waved the storyboard in his hand: "Simple? What are you talking about? Doesn't this song just say that the junior is cheating? The woman moved to a new neighborhood and made eye contact with a man. As a result, both of them have families, and they can only like it secretly, just this little thing. The neighborhood is the best scene, is there any problem?

"I've read your resume, Donde, you don't seem to have much experience. So there may be some deviations in the understanding of MV shooting, this is not making a movie! Remember! ”

Don De shrugged his shoulders and laughed at his warning: "But the meaning of the MV itself is to add color to the song, just follow the lyrics, what's the point?" So if the lyrics are a record of a person's daily grocery shopping, do we still have to take pictures of the vegetables in the supermarket hypermarket? ”

"How do you shoot that? Is it to film the process of two people banging into it? Like European art films? ”

"You're arguing with words! We can give the MV more plot and watchability! ”

"Come on, can you still be an artist when you shoot a music video? Mike, what photographer did you get me? Does he really know how to shoot? Thorn confronted Mike directly.

And Mike didn't expect that the two of them would be like eating gunpowder when they met, so he hurriedly stood up and waved his hands: "Calm down, calm down." ”

Then he said to Thorn first: "I think Donde's words are not unreasonable. After all, the cost of the customer to us is not small, and we have to do our best within our ability, isn't that how it should be? ”

Then he said to Tang De: "Since you think this MV is simpler, how do you think it can be made better?" ”

Tang De saw that others shifted their eyes to himself, and took the opportunity to say his creativity: "I want to add a main line......"

What he wanted to add was the picture in the MV of Taylor Swift's song "I don't want to live forever", Taylor's MV was shot very well, the movie texture was rich, and the suspense felt bit.

Any song that is put into the present is a dimensionality reduction blow, and it is a fresh excitement that the audience has never seen before.

Just like the MV shot by Tang De for Raymond, from color to lighting to plot, everything serves the song itself.

At present, the shooting of many MVs is limited to dancing, duet, and at most a little plot, and there is no concept of integration of film-level MVs at all.

So what Don De came up with is undoubtedly very new to them.

And now what he wants to join is the scene of a man and a woman in Taylor's music video singing to the camera while walking in a hotel passage with the same dim background.

Tang De wanted to use this picture as the main line, and constantly interspersed the memories of the two during the singing, such as the encounter in the neighborhood, and some hidden emotional interactions. Coupled with the camera's movement and color grading of the movie, the ambiguous atmosphere is highlighted.

In this way, the audience will look forward to the meeting of the two people in the hotel when they see it, and they will have a sense of peeping into participating in the cheating.

As for whether the two people really met in the same hotel and collided with sparks in the ending, that is the suspense left by Tang De.

If you use a novel as a metaphor, then Thorn's original MV is a running account, which advances directly according to the date throughout, without the slightest extra room for imagination.

What Tang De shoots is a suspense novel, which uses suspense to stimulate the audience's interest at the beginning, and then unravels the suspense until the end.

After listening to Donde's idea, Mike tapped his pen on the table, and Jose and Brewer were a little excited, because if they shot like this, their role would undoubtedly become greater.

But Thorn snorted coldly, "Sounds good, but do you know how much it costs to shoot like this?" Budget, how much budget can a MV have, are you going to convince those singers to throw money on it? What a dream! ”

"There is a low-budget way to have a low budget, and the living will never be suffocated by urine." After Don De finished speaking, everyone except Thorn was amused by this sentence.

However, Thorn still went his own way: "I won't shoot according to this, the audience is here to listen to the song, to see the singer!" You're getting this distinction wrong! ”

With that, he got up and walked out the door, saying to Mike, "Either you convince him or let him go." ”

"Bang!" The door was closed, and the next second it was opened, and everyone saw that it was the late gaffer Wadden.

"Am I missing something? Why did Thorn rush out with a look of rage? He stood in the doorway, dazed.

And Don De looked at Mike: "What are you going to do?" ”

Mike sighed: "Although I would love to support you, you must know that Thorn is the designated director over there, and I ......"

"Okay, I'll go back and think about it." Don got up and left the CAA building, standing on the side of the road and picking up his mobile phone to make a call.

"Hey, Slo...... It's me, Donde. ”

"Well, can you please help me with something? It's simple, don't let him ......"

"No problem, I'll wait."

"Just tonight...... Thanks bro. ”

Tang De hung up the phone and looked at the height of the building, since he had no way to say it, he could only let some people quit.