Chapter 193 The dawn of the screenwriter(1/2)
It took a full 16 days to modify the script of "The Owl and Dumbo" to Yin Jun.
This includes plot scripts and storyboard scripts.
The plot script is relatively easy, but Huang Boming is a little uncomfortable with the storyboard script.
When people in Hong Kong film, they like to let actors and directors play freely. If they are too restricted, they will feel awkward.
Huang Baiming also specifically asked Yin Jun why he did this with a strict look.
Yin Jun told him that making a good script and storyboard scripts help directors and actors understand their roles and plot development better, and not something that restricts them. They can freely perform without violating the central point, but cannot deviate from the main line.
Otherwise, the movie will appear very scattered and make people feel bored when watching it.
Whether a movie will be good or not is actually driven by the storyline.
Once the plot is messy and the performance is casual, then this movie will make many people confused and feel fooled when they go out.
This is what the Hong Kong movie that flocked to the mainland after 2010 and after the box office market surged sharply, it gave everyone the feeling.
If they took out the movies from the 1980s and 1990s, they would definitely be very popular, but after twenty or thirty years, they still did not make any progress. Instead, they became more and more sincere, which made people feel unhappy.
They are all mature mainland movie fans who give most of the Hong Kong movies.
The deepest reason is that they don’t have a good story at all. They are just taking it for granted and will certainly not be bought by others.
A typical example is Huang Baiming, who was recruited by Yin Juncai to help the screenwriter.
For a few years, he gave a New Year's film of similar types every year. Not only did the mainland audience vomit, but the locals in Xiangjiang also shouted that they couldn't bear it.
You must be sincere in doing things. If you don’t have sincerity, you will naturally be abandoned by the market.
Now Yin Jun asked Huang Baiming to write the storyboard script of "The Owl and Dumbo", just to want him to understand the whole story in his heart, so that he has a complete story system, and no matter how the director and actors perform, they will not go beyond the framework or fall apart.
Huang Boming heard Yin Jun’s explanation, although he didn’t say it, Yin Jun knew that he felt that this was too troublesome.
However, Huang Boming is now learning with Yin Jun, so he certainly won't go against Yin Jun's intentions.
But Huang Boming certainly wouldn't know how powerful the subtle power is.
When countless scripts written by Yin Jun in Xiangjiang made the movies popular, he couldn't help but learn from Yin Jun and learn from this successful experience.
After writing "The Owl and Dumbo", Yin Jun instead gave Huang Baiming the script summary of "The Prodigal" to Huang Baiming.
Huang Baiming is also a person who can endure hardships. There was no rest, so he came up with another script to fill and expand. He didn't even complain, so he took it back and started working.
Hong Jinbao here was already eager to see him. Seeing Yin Jun bringing the notebook over, he couldn't wait to read it for a day. He handed over the 1 million cash check with both hands. A not-so-formal contract followed, which said that Yin Jun could enjoy 10% of the profits of "Owls and Dumbo".
Of course, this 10% profit income is limited to the calculation of the part that Hong Jinbao can get.
Hong Jinbao has a very outstanding vision. Although he also has his own limitations, his abilities are definitely among the stars of the same era.
As the saying goes, the waves are washed away when a hero reveals his true nature.
Hong Jinbao can still play roles on the screen in 2020, and his nearly 50 years of acting career continues. This is an amazing performance.
Therefore, when he saw Yin Jun's script, he knew it was very distinctive and interesting.
It was like it was tailor-made for him and Maiga.
Urban stories are close to life.
The plot of the thief makes people unable to help but explore.
The suspense setting makes people want to think further.
Thrilling fights will make people feel refreshed again.
Love stories can also make people feel relaxed.
Abandoning evil and following good is in line with the eternal main theme.
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The links added together, but they were not randomly filled, but arranged reasonably and excitingly. This is a very test of a screenwriter's skills.
Hong Jinbao's own contribution, if he did it, he would at most make a difference in funny things. He would definitely do it in the plot arrangement, especially compared with Yin Jun's script, it was simply weak.
Even people like Maijia who do not agree with buying high-priced scripts have read the scripts several times and the storyboard scripts, and they can't help but say to Hong Jinbao, "If Ajun cannot stand out in the future, God will be blind."
Hong Jinbao got the script. With their Xiangjiang people's style of doing things, the crew must be prepared in three to five days, and usually the movie will be released in one month.
With Yin Jun’s good script, Hong Jinbao and Maijia must have to polish it well, but it will not be released in more than two months at most.
Hong Jinbao was preparing to make a movie with great fanfare, but Wu Siyuan had never received any news from Yin Jun. He felt a little panicked and simply invited Yin Jun to attend a friend's party, and wanted to urge him by the way.
Originally, Yin Jun didn't like to attend any dinner parties, but Wu Siyuan's pleaded with great force, Yin Jun couldn't refuse, so he came to the Hongde Restaurant where he had booked a banquet at the agreed time.
37 years ago, most of the restaurants in Xiangjiang were moved from eastern Guangdong. Later, with the ongoing War of Resistance, many well-known restaurants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang also came to the relatively stable Xiangjiang in order to escape the war.
Therefore, the restaurants in Xiangjiang are like those in Baodao, and basically all the flowers are blooming. Many century-old restaurants are scattered here, gaining a good reputation and fortune.
Hongde Restaurant is not famous in eastern Guangdong, but their main Shunde dishes are still good, light and delicious, attracting the favor of many customers.
When Yin Jun arrived, he saw the square-faced man with a curly head and a thick beard. The one holding his arm was a beautiful girl with a big mouth, just a little thin.
Next to me is a man with ordinary glasses, who looks about 20 years old.
"Come on, Jun Jun, I'll introduce it to you." Wu Siyuan stood up with them and smiled and said, "These two are Xu Ke and Shi Lansheng. You think you have heard their names? This is also a screenwriter of Jiashi, named Shu Qi!"
"Hello, hello!"
Yin Jun reached out to shake hands with them, and after everyone greeted them enthusiastically, they sat down.
Shu Qi was a little worried that Yin Junji was arrogant and unruly, but he didn't expect that he was such a gentle and even shy young man.
Shu Qi sighed in his heart, "It's really a person who can't behave like a person. Who would have known that such a 16-year-old boy was invincible in the world, making all the screenwriters in Xiangjiang bow to him?"
However, everyone would also be somewhat grateful to Yin Jun.
Because before Yin Jun, screenwriters were not worth it. On TV stations, screenwriters had a very low status. Everyone thinks that the excellence of the TV series is due to the producer and the leading actor. The screenwriter's script is just that.
The same goes for movies.
As a result, after Yin Jun was born, Jiashi's shaky TV station was supported by his two scripts "Bao Qingtian" and "Wulin Waizai", and TV stations that swept across Asia were even sought after in Japan and South Korea.
It's more than that.
Before writing "Bao Qingtian" and "The Legend of Wulin", the film "Seven Days of False Love" made the declining former actor shine again. Not only did it break the box office record of Xiangjiang, the box office in Asia was as high as more than 60 million, second only to Li Xiaolong, shocking all the filmmakers in Xiangjiang.
After that, Yin Jun adapted a novel "Chu Liuxiang" for Li's TV station. This novel, which was originally a very famous one in Baodao, was polished and written by Yin Jun, and then performed by Zheng Shaoqiu and Zhao Yazhi, and suddenly created a crazy record that neither Bao Qingtian nor Wulin Waizhi could create, with an average viewership rate of more than 80% in all Asian broadcasting TV stations!
So much so that Gu Long, the original author of "Chu Liuxiang", couldn't help but say so sadly that people only knew that Chu Xiangshuai was Zheng Shaoqiu, but they thought that "Chu Liuxiang" was Yin Jun's work, which was so depressing.
Not only is the ratings impressive, Yin Jun's income is even more impressive.
In the past, when I was filming TV series and movies, I only heard that they were well filmed, with high box office and ratings. The TV station sent red envelopes to actors and producers, but I never heard of sending red envelopes to screenwriters.
The screenwriter not only has little income, but his work and rest are also very abnormal. Usually, if the task comes, he has to complete the task even if he is holding it in. That is not a nine-to-five, but a night-long work.
Everyone knows that staying up late is not good.
But for this job, which screenwriter dares to say that he has not survived the night? Oh, I'm afraid only Yin Jun has not stayed up late to write.
The screenwriters have always been very depressed by paying so much and earning so little.
But Yin Jun is different. He can earn hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in one script. After several TV series and movies, he makes more money than any star!
This suddenly brought the screenwriters a bright power, letting everyone know that screenwriters can actually excel and make a lot of money.
Their sufferings are just because they are not as good as Yin Jun. As long as they can learn from Yin Jun and constantly surpass themselves, they will definitely be able to succeed!
Huang Baiming had this idea, so once he had the opportunity to accept Yin Jun's guidance, he quit his job without saying a word and came to follow Yin Jun.
Moreover, the benefits Yin Jun brought to screenwriters are not only to let them see the bright future, but also to the substantial benefits.
For example, among the three major TV stations, they gradually increased their treatment for screenwriters, with an average salary increase of more than 30%, hoping to find someone close to Yin Jun among their own people so that they can also make good scripts.
The same goes for film companies.
Shaw Brothers's stingy company is now looking for scripts at high prices everywhere, which has caused many editors who are not talented to submit to the books.
Shu Qi is a screenwriter on Jiayi TV.
He has a good imagination. After a few years of hard work, he was entrusted with an important task this year. As the main creator of "The History of Celebrities", he wrote this TV series that is of great significance to Jiashi.
At that time, Jiashi was thinking about whether she could make a beautiful comeback, so she relied on "The History of Celebrity Love".
Shu Qi and a group of friends were also ready to save their TV station from danger.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he appeared, he encountered the TV series "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", which was fought back by a TV series performed by superstars such as Zheng Shaoqiu, Wang Minquan, and Zhao Yazhi. The ratings were simply defeated.
If Yin Jun's "Bao Qingtian" had not been released, "The History of Celebrities" would have been nailed to the record of Jiashi, a short-lived TV station.
Shu Qi was not convinced at first, and he did not think "Bao Qingtian" was so outstanding.
But seeing that "Bao Qingtian" beat "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" to the point where he almost cut his head, and that he had created such good ratings and copyright income in other places, Shu Qi realized how big the gap between him and Yin Jun was so big that he would not implicate the audience in other countries that had hundreds of millions of dollars.
Then there is "Wulin Waizhi". Shu Qi was completely disliked by such a playful TV series. He thought Yin Jun was completely nonsense and was a person who was complacent as soon as he succeeded.
At the beginning, the ratings of Jiashi seemed to confirm Shuqi's view.
But what he didn't expect was that in less than a week, "Wulin Waiji" suddenly broke out, making rapid progress, killing all the heroes at 7 o'clock in one go, and getting a rating that was the only one.
Similarly, in the ratings and buyout situations of foreign places, "Wulin Waichuan" is no less than "Bao Qingtian". Even in the minds of young people, "Bao Qingtian" is not as good as "Wulin Waichuan", which can be seen from the popularity of the stars in "Wulin Waichuan".
To be continued...