The slanting drizzle knocked on the window, making a "ticking" sound.
A rain fell during this hot weather, which dissipated some of the heat.
Also because it was raining, the sky should have been bright at 6:30, but when Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei got up, the sky was filled with clouds and looked dark and gloomy.
After taking a bath, washing and drying the blankets and clothes, the two of them went to the small villa to have breakfast with Liu Xiaoli, and then they went out together.
It's just that the destinations of the two parties are different. Liu Xiaoli went to the Bright Times Headquarters Company, while Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei had to go to the Bright Times Film and Television Company first.
As the producer of "Zhu Xian", I was so busy filming "Struggle" that I didn't go to see the post-production status of "Zhu Xian" for a long time.
Now that "Struggle" has been completed and they have some free time, they should go see it and say hello to the teachers.
When they came to the film and television company, Zhao Jian and Huang Lei pretended to be novel. Huang Lei joked: "Two producers, do you still remember "Zhu Xian"? It's rare."
"Busy." Chu Xuan said, smiling with Liu Yifei.
The girl at the company's front desk brought two stools and poured two cups of tea.
Kong Sheng thought that if he asked Liu Yi for advice and let "Nirvana in Fire" follow the script of "Hope" and let the popular Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei star in it, he thought it would really become popular.
Kong Sheng nodded heavily and said with determination: "If you come to act after the adaptation, there is a high probability that it will be popular."
"Female General." She put the small backpack on her back again.
"Teacher Kong, are you so happy?" Liu Yifei asked curiously.
However, the monkey on the computer screen was not gray, but brown, which made Liu Yifei a little surprised.
Huang Lei grinned and said: "No matter how fake it is, it is better than other special effects TV series. The investment of more than 20 million in special effects is no joke. Moreover, it is our own special effects company, so there is no water in the production."
This is also the current operating process of film and television drama production in Bright Times.
The material room of the project department is called the "Book Library" by the directors. It is like a small library. Many novels that have been purchased by the project department for film and television rights have been printed out and collected in categories according to subject matter and type.
It can range from tens of thousands to as high as one hundred thousand. Compared with those traditionally published novels, this is simply a bargain.
Liu Yifei took the novel file from Chu Xuan's hand, put it together with her own into a small white backpack, and walked into the elevator with Chu Xuan.
Liu Yifei blinked and smiled slightly. She hadn't read the novel yet. She didn't even know who Princess Nihuang was, but Teacher Kong Sheng was so optimistic about her.
Chu Xuan said suddenly: "Teacher Kong Sheng, you have said so, so we must read this novel no matter what. As for whether we are interested in it, we will wait until the variety show is over."
When he was on the set of "Hope", he got along with Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei for two or three months, and they chatted often.
Although Princess Nihuang in the novel "Nirvana in Fire" seems to be just a female supporting character, and there is no female protagonist in the novel "Nirvana in Fire" according to the plot, but for the adaptation, as long as Liu Yifei is willing to play the role and add some plot points to adapt it into a female protagonist
Isn’t that enough?
"Ancient costume..." Liu Yifei frowned slightly and muttered.
She already has a strong personality, which makes her very interested in characters such as female generals, but she currently knows nothing about the novel, so she has to read what the novel is about before making a conclusion.
"Teacher Kong, do you want us to perform this?" Seeing this, Liu Yifei had already guessed the reason why Kong Sheng stopped her and Chu Xuan.
"Several groups of videographers were specially sent to various zoos to find different monkeys and record them to capture their behaviors."
"Are you interested?" Chu Xuan took her left hand.
Recently, the company's project department purchased a batch of novels with film and television copyrights.
He continued: "You go back and take the time to take a look. If you are interested, we will discuss the adaptation after the variety show is over. If you are not interested, just give up. How about it?"
"There is still something going on at the company," Chu Xuan said.
Although online novels vary in quality, there are still some good works. As long as one of them becomes popular after being adapted, it will make a lot of money.
Kong Sheng nodded: "I only discovered this novel some time ago. In the variety show "I Am an Actor" that will be launched soon, I am also one of the directors responsible for filming film and television drama clips for students, so I don't have time to prepare.
."
"Okay." Kong Sheng nodded.
Although there are many logical loopholes in this novel, the overall story structure is okay. Kong Sheng experienced the filming of "Hope" and also recognized Liu Yi's screenwriting thinking. "Hope" is a very simple story, but when Liu Yi changed his personality
From the perspective of the story, a simple story becomes suspenseful.
"Chu Xuan, Qianqian, just in time, come on." Kong Sheng just walked out of the company's project department and saw that Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei were also in the company. His eyes lit up and he waved to them.
After having a casual meal with the teachers at the film and television company, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei stood up to say goodbye.
After the film and television company was established, this department was divided from the head office to the film and television company, and the personnel were also transferred there. This can be regarded as subdividing the department's responsibilities to make it more compatible with the film and television company. The head office only needs to control the copyright.
If a director is interested in a play resource, it will be approved by the head office and approved by the project department, and then the investment company will raise funds. The rest will be left to the producer, director, and chief screenwriter to start the film and television production process.
Since the film and television company has this project department, some directors contracted by the film and television company often come to the company to learn about or find suitable script resources.
On the one hand, Brilliant Era is rich and wealthy, but the most important thing is that directors like them found that the film and television copyrights of these novels are very cheap, much lower than the copyright fees of traditional published novels.
"Well, let's read the novel and then talk." Liu Yifei stretched out her right hand to smooth her hair.
But there is almost no love element in "Nirvana in Fire" and it is not an idol drama. It is completely different from "Sword of Immortal" and "The Condor".
Xu Shi was very optimistic about how well Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei matched the male and female protagonists. Before Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei could speak, Kong Sheng said again: "To be honest, Chu Xuan, you are really suitable for playing the role of Mei Changsu, the male protagonist in the novel.
, your masculine face is very suitable for an ancient general, and your acting skills can also convey a sense of frailty and morbidity; Liu Yifei, you are also very suitable for playing the heroine, Princess Nihuang, with both classical beauty and the heroic spirit of a female general."
"Although it is a period novel, it is completely different from your previous "Sword of Immortality" and "The Condor". This is a conspiracy and suspense novel." Kong Sheng explained.
With the financial resources of the Brilliant Era, it is easy to spend some money to buy a batch.
"It's just a novel. There's no script. Let's read it." Chu Xuan casually flipped through a few pages and said.
Zhao Jian took a sip of tea from the thermos cup and watched the technicians operating on the computer screen. He continued to explain: "Now we are separating the monkey's dynamic behavior as special effects, and then attaching these special effects to Xiao Hui's
The animal model is finally rendered with high parameters, so that Xiao Hui will be more realistic in the TV series."
He knew that Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei didn't want to act in costume dramas anymore. To be precise, they didn't want to act in costume idol dramas anymore.
"Okay, let's take a step first." Chu Xuan said, turning around and leaving with Liu Yifei.
Xiao Hui is the gray monkey who always follows Zhang Xiaofan in "Zhu Xian" and is Zhang Xiaofan's pet.
Compared with the previous works of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, the characters and plots of the male and female protagonists in "Nirvana in Fire" are very fresh and can interest the audience.
As long as a new batch of "goods" comes in, directors like them will come to visit and pick and choose the "goods" to see if there are any works suitable for adaptation that stand out to them.
Recently, the quality of the new batch of "goods" received by the project department is quite good. One is "The Legend of Zhen Huan", one is "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", and one is "Nirvana in Fire". These are works that directors like them feel are acceptable.
"Just leaving? Don't pay much attention to your own work." Huang Lei joked again.
Why do you say batch?
Kong Sheng and other contracted directors discovered a feature of the project department. They don’t know whether it was Wang Jinhua’s idea or Chu Xuan’s. The project department has a will to act. As long as it is a popular novel on the Internet, the project department will try its best to buy the film and television rights.
, regardless of whether it is suitable for adaptation or not.
Hearing this, Zhao Jian and Huang Lei nodded and said no more.
Zhao Jian and Huang Lei raised the corners of their mouths slightly and did not argue about this topic. They just wanted to make a joke and left it at that.
But, female general? This was a role she had never played before, and she was a little interested in it.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei took it and looked down, "Nirvana in Fire"?
This is not a document, but a printed novel, a thick stack of 4A paper bound with staples.
This can be regarded as the charm embodied by computer technology, which can make fantasy things infinitely close to reality through technology.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei were slightly surprised. What novel is suitable for adaptation? If you find it, you will find it. What does it have to do with us?
When they saw Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, the staff of the project department greeted them warmly, calling them "Mr. Chu" and "Producer Liu".
He believes that Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei's concern about the audience's visual fatigue is unnecessary in "Nirvana in Fire".
Chu Xuan understood: "This is good. Xiao Hui's appearance rate is quite high. If it is too fake, it will affect the perception."
The first two novels were booked by other directors, and "Nirvana in Fire" was a novel he accidentally discovered some time ago.
This project department was originally a department of the Bright Times Corporation. Its responsibilities were to analyze market trends, purchase novel copyrights, recommend novels suitable for adaptation based on the market, and plan film and television projects.
Everyone bowed their heads slightly, this is actually true.
"The color is wrong," she objected.
The smile on Kong Sheng's face did not diminish, and he led the two of them into the project department without answering Liu Yifei's words.
Kong Sheng picked up two documents from a desk, turned around and handed them to the two of them.
You don't have to worry about this in "Zhu Xian". After all, it is its own special effects company, and Zhao Jian and Huang Lei are watching over it. This is why Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei are relatively relieved even if they can't come over for a long time.
"Yes." Zhao Jian nodded and said: "I also considered it based on this point. Otherwise, there is no need to make it complicated. Like other mythical beasts in "Zhu Xian", you only need to build an animal model and imagine some actions out of thin air. It will be more fake.
It’s okay, there are very few appearances.”
"I found a novel that is very suitable for adaptation." Kong Sheng said.
"Is this Xiao Hui?" Liu Yifei pointed to the animal model on the computer screen, standing side by side with Chu Xuan behind the chair and watching.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei walked out of the company, but were stopped by a voice halfway.
Seeing Kong Sheng's surprised and excited expression, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei looked confused. What's the good thing?
With this in mind, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei turned around at the front desk of the company and headed towards Kong Sheng.
Many domestic production companies do not know much about the special effects industry. When outsourcing post-production special effects projects to special effects companies, many production companies have no idea whether the special effects companies are serious about the production and whether they are slaughtering sheep in terms of funds.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei smiled back and nodded.
I chatted with the teachers and watched the special effects production all morning. I saw the technicians splitting up the monkey's movements one after another in the video. It looked quite interesting.
Liu Yifei nodded and understood.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei sat down, thanked them, and took the disposable teacups.
The elevator door opens and you arrive at the underground parking lot.
Liu Yifei raised her right hand and looked at her watch: "It's one o'clock. Go to the company quickly. We have to take promotional photos for "I Am an Actor" this afternoon."
"Just take a few photos, no trouble." Chu Xuan opened the driver's door and got in, while Liu Yifei got into the passenger seat.
The car started and headed to the Bright Times Headquarters.
