In the rainy and snowy weather, the staff were all wearing down jackets, cotton hats and gloves, and were busy coming and going in the park.
In the office building behind the dormitory building, Liu Yi, the chief writer of the program, was walking in the corridor and put down the phone that hung up in his ear.
In his eyes, Long Danni turned the corner and walked towards him.
"Old Liu." Long Danni said hello, rubbing his arms with his folded hands, making a cold look: "It's cold today."
"It's getting colder and colder. It's going to snow heavily in a while." Liu Yi smiled and said, "How's it going?"
Long Danni walked in his direction and said: "In a few days, we will call Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei to record the daily routine. We can start the second stage recording in the early 20th."
Liu Yi nodded and joked: "These two assistant coaches should be having a lot of fun during this time. They haven't been here for a long time."
Long Danni was delighted when he heard this: "They did their duty in the last stage of recording and accompanied them almost the whole time. There were enough shots and the effect was almost achieved. They didn't have much work to do in the subsequent recording, which is exactly what they wanted."
At this time, they were chatting about the adaptation. When they saw Liu Yi shouting at the door, they looked puzzled. They didn't know what Lao Liu wanted from them, so they all stood up and walked to the door.
"After all these years, there are still the same few people at the top of the tower. How many screenwriters have you seen get ahead?"
"We are a private enterprise. We do not break the law or violate disciplines. How the company develops is not ours to decide. Why are we afraid of them?"
He looked at Gong Geer and the others and saw that they had no other opinions. He said bluntly: "Mr. Wang, Third Master, Chu Xuan, Qian Qian, what do you want to do?"
"I don't need to consider the writing structure of the sub-shots. According to Mr. Chu's wishes, the sub-shot scripts will be written by another screenwriter."
Sci-fi, involving special effects.
"So..." Yang Dongxu paused and thought for a moment, then said: "The current process of character design, scene dialogue and sub-shot scripts can be completed by a screenwriter in a straight line, which is equivalent to breaking it all into pieces, and each link is completed by
Completed by different screenwriters.”
In other words, what Chu Xuan said broke their original screenwriting ideas.
Liu Yi said silently: "This is equivalent to us going against the traditional screenwriting method that has been passed down for hundreds of years."
Moreover, regardless of success or failure, after his brief thought, the process of completing this matter seemed not difficult.
Liu Yifei looked stunned and shook her head.
However, it is his obligation and responsibility to pursue his own affairs in his position, as the head of the Bright Times Literature Department, and to act in accordance with the company's development strategy.
If they want to change a common thought, they are destined to be enemies with their colleagues who have outdated ideas and maintain traditions, and they will also fight against the Screenwriters Association whose interests are harmed.
Chu Xuan reached for the teapot and poured it for him, then glanced at Liu Yi.
Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, Wang Jinhua, Han Sanping, and Liu Xiaoli all looked at Liu Yi, waiting for him to continue.
Yang Dongxu, Gong Geer and Ye Junzi looked shocked and remained silent.
This caught them a little off guard.
"When the time comes, let Mr. Wang give you a salary increase to compensate." Han Sanping joked.
"This is the definition of screenwriter. Since the last century, screenwriters around the world have followed this rule to conduct systematic study."
"The entire film and television drama production process has been shortened. From a timeline perspective, the time for the company to start the next project will also be shortened accordingly."
Gong Geer looked at him, stretched out his finger and pointed casually, saying: "According to the existing screenwriting work system, a screenwriter needs to complete the entire writing process of the plot. Does this screenwriter consider many things when writing?"
Liu Yi, Yang Dongxu, Gong Geer and Ye Junzi fell into silence, and Han Sanping's words also made them emotional.
"Secondly, with fewer things to consider, work efficiency will increase accordingly. It seems that we need more screenwriters to complete the script, which increases labor costs, but shortening the script planning time is equivalent to shortening the entire production time.
The process of film and television drama production.”
Literary scripts are divided into three, and scene description, dialogue description and character design are separated?
What could possibly alarm Han Sanping?
Han Sanping said slowly: "The industrialization of film and television is a very complicated matter. Mr. Chu and I discussed this matter some time ago."
Correspondingly, it will definitely have a certain impact on people at the upper levels of the screenwriting industry pyramid.
Breaking the structure of screenwriting workflow?
Let screenwriting work be subdivided?
"So, Mr. Wang, Mr. Chu, and I, including Xiao Liu, the core participant in this matter, decided to give it a try."
It was no secret that Han Sanping wanted to industrialize film and television. At this moment, they also knew the reason why they were called here today.
"Brother Liu, are you also a member of the Screenwriters Association?" Chu Xuan asked.
Since Chu Xuan was the speaker, he asked Chu Xuan: "Chu Xuan, why do you have this idea?"
Although the company has not started a film and television project to allow them to participate in script creation in the past year since joining Bright Times, the film and television company will integrate external resources and let them select some scripts to participate in the creation, which is also an outsourcing job.
No matter what, they can practice and improve, which is pretty good.
They hurriedly arrived at the company, followed Liu Yi to the chairman's office, knocked on the door, and then pushed open the door.
Brilliant Era seems to be taking the route of film and television industrialization, and it will start from the aspect of screenwriting as the starting point of film and television industrialization.
Seeing that he agreed, Chu Xuan, Wang Jinhua, and Han Sanping smiled.
Xiao Liu?...Liu Yifei pursed her lips, and a smile appeared in the corners of her eyes. It was the first time she heard this title, and she found it very interesting.
“When I write a scene, do I only need to consider the scene?”
Liu Yi smiled and said: ""Zhu Xian" is very special. It has to reflect the personalities of many characters. Those screenwriters invited... Everyone knows that many screenwriters in our country are just living on what they have done, and there is no long-term future.
Therefore, these screenwriters have very Cheng-style thinking, thinking that the supporting characters are not very important, and naturally they cannot design any good plots. I rejected the draft many times, which wasted a lot of time."
Gong Geer and Ye Jun were silent.
But now I want to meet these screenwriters?
They felt strange and confused, but at the same time they were fully expecting something to happen to them.
Liu Yi and the others glanced at Chu Xuan. They didn't expect Chu Xuan to be able to talk to Han Sanping about this matter at such an age.
Liu Yifei blinked and said, "Brother Liu is professional and analyzed our specific ideas in one go."
Gong Geer looked amused and behaved very modestly.
"What if..." Liu Yi lowered his head and paused, then raised his head and said, "The screenwriter mainly completes the overall design of the story in the form of written expressions."
Liu Yi and the others suddenly realized that as screenwriters, they did not think as far-term as Han Sanping. But after hearing what Han Sanping said, they discovered that reorganizing the screenwriting process could have such a profound impact on the development of the company, which can be regarded as an improvement.
"The screenwriters who finally successfully signed a contract with the company were led by teachers and used the first part of the science fiction trilogy as an experimental work to carry out new methods of script writing."
"This is one of them."
In the office, Yang Dongxu, Gong Geer and Ye Jun were sitting in a group chatting.
This idea of industrializing screenwriting breaks tradition and breaks the thinking of the script creation process for more than a century.
Gong Geer concluded: "Human energy is limited. As a writer and mental worker, the less he thinks about when working, the simpler his work will be. And simplicity will make this person
The better you do your job."
What Chu Xuan said "varies from person to person" is also a screenwriting issue. With his many years of screenwriting experience as a foundation, Chu Xuan's thinking is not difficult for him to understand.
In his opinion, the science fiction trilogy is very suitable for the attempt to industrialize film and television.
"Papa papa" applause rang out, and Han Sanping clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Teacher Gong hit the nail on the head."
Liu Yi also understood a little, nodded and said: "I understand what you mean. The chief screenwriter team first designs the characters and story background, and then conceives the story structure."
"Third Master?!" Everyone was surprised.
"Also, let's not consider what affects the industry. We first consider how to transform the company's screenwriters, set standards for each link of screenwriting work, and achieve a clear, efficient, easy, and highly flexible streamlined process.
Work standards.”
Liu Yi looked at Han Sanping and said: "What you just said may change the living situation of domestic screenwriters. The subdivision of screenwriting work also means that the threshold for screenwriting is lowered, which will shake the status of the top screenwriters in the country."
On the one hand, he is destined to offend a group of people, and on the other hand, if he succeeds, he will be one of the pioneers involved in the industrialization of film and television. His industry status will naturally rise, and even if he fails, it will not affect the foundation of the Brilliant Era, and the loss will seem to be small.
Not that big, he is still the head of the literature department.
The corners of Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei and Han Sanping's mouths were slightly raised. It seemed that Teacher Gong Geer understood the changes that this idea could bring.
"And what we have to do is break its integrity."
Most of the screenwriters, not even the directors and producers, have ever met, and they are obviously not looked down upon by these senior figures.
Seeing the three people walking out, Liu Yi closed the door and said: "Go to the company, Mr. Wang is looking for you."
Liu Yi, Gong Geer, Yang Dongxu and Ye Junzi smiled bitterly and shook their heads.
Chu Xuan sat at the tea-making seat. Liu Yifei took out three small teacups from the pot with tweezers and cleaned them. Chu Xuan picked up the teapot and poured tea for them while talking.
Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei and Han Sanping smiled slightly.
But thinking about Chu Xuan's achievements in creating micro-entertainment and his current status, it doesn't seem unbelievable that this young man will do something else.
"This..." Yang Dongxu was speechless.
But they didn't think so.
"It is up to each teacher to decide how to train, and whether to recruit or eliminate them is also up to each teacher."
he shouted and waved.
Liu Yi and the others looked at each other. Today they were called here inexplicably, and now they are inexplicably about to accept a major event that may change their lives.
They have also been struggling for many years, and with some luck, they received some good adaptations of novels, and then relied on successful adaptations one after another to get to where they are now, but only in front of producers and directors.
Communicate normally.
"How do you say that?" Ye Junzi was confused.
Until the program "I Am an Actor" was launched, the company asked them to participate.
Liu Yi nodded slightly, indicating that he understood what Chu Xuan meant.
Han Sanping put down his crossed legs, picked up the small teacup to take a sip of tea, then put it down again. Seeing Chu Xuan pick up the teapot to pour tea for him, he crossed his legs again.
"I don't know." Liu Yi shook his head and took the lead to the stairs: "The third master is waiting."
Yang Dongxu, Gong Geer and Ye Junzi were thoughtful and probably understood Chu Xuan's thinking.
Liu Xiaoli is Wang Jinhua's assistant, so it's normal for her to appear here.
“Do I only need to consider character when writing dialogue?”
The members of the Screenwriters Guild are all well-known screenwriters, and they are basically at the upper level of the screenwriting industry.
"Looking at the overall situation, this is undoubtedly a good thing for the company."
Liu Yi nodded and thought for a moment.
"What do you want to say?" Han Sanping remained calm, picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea.
"Other links are very complicated and difficult to do." Han Sanping said: "But in terms of screenwriting, with the financial and resources of the brilliant era, this idea can be tried and experimented, and it is completely able to withstand failure."
Furthermore, Bright Times owns shares in Micro-Entertainment as its capital base, which is a huge financial advantage that no other entertainment company across the country has.
At first they didn't take it seriously. What does a show have to do with their group of writers?
However, after the first stage of script creation of the program, such as Zhang Luyi and Chen Chuang's drama-within-a-drama adaptation, and Hu Ge and Yang Mi's adaptation that broke the character structure, they benefited a lot and gained a lot of inspiration.
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At this moment, Liu Yi and the others also understood the relationship behind this matter, and the doubts in their hearts disappeared.
Yang Dongxu, Gong Geer and Ye Jun looked sideways at Liu Yi. Liu Yi was the most familiar with these people and had good personal relationships with Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei. Liu Yi was also a senior executive of the company, so it was more convenient for him to speak.
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Liu Yi and the others listened to Chu Xuan's story, and the more he spoke, the more frightened they became.
It was often heard that Chu Xuan took Liu Yifei with him wherever he went, as if he was cultivating Liu Yifei, but when Liu Yifei appeared here, they didn't take it seriously.
Science fiction trilogy?... This was the first time Yang Dongxu and the others heard this term. After thinking about "Hope" by Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, they seemed to understand something.
"The core concept of learning lies in the overall design of the story."
"But if this job is detailed and different screenwriters are asked to complete each link, think about it..."
"Where are the other screenwriters? They kneel down and beg for a job and they are still rejected."
"Then isn't this more complicated?" Ye Junzi frowned. What can obviously be done by one person is now done by multiple people. How complicated it is.
Thinking about the situation of other colleagues, they also sighed inwardly.
Han Sanping is one of the top figures in the entertainment circle who can be seen face to face.
However, Liu Yi was silent for a moment and then said: "Consider the impact of this matter?"
The two parties said hello and sat down on the sofa.
In this industry, screenwriters are indeed the most difficult to get into and are not taken seriously.
It is related to the industrialization of screenwriting, film and television, and it is based on the company Bright Era. As the backbone of the company in screenwriting, they must take the lead in doing this. After all, they are the professionals.
"So, I want to use a 'different for each person' approach to train screenwriters to deeply polish the parts they are good at." Chu Xuan explained the reason.
"What's going on?" Yang Dongxu was curious.
"How is that possible?" Liu Yi shook his head. Every screenwriter has his own strengths and weaknesses, and there are very few screenwriters who are proficient in all aspects of screenwriting work.
"So what?" Han Sanping didn't take Liu Yi's words to heart at all, and said calmly: "The association is a non-governmental organization, not an official organization. Even if they embarrass us, they will only use the media to attack us, and that's it."
In addition to Wang Jinhua and Han Sanping, they also discovered Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, as well as Liu Yifei's mother Liu Xiaoli.
Success or failure, as long as you participate and have the support of the company and Han Sanping, this is an opportunity for advancement.
"I can count on two hands the screenwriters like you, Liu Yi, who can earn 1.8 million for writing a script, including those from Hong Kong and Taiwan."
Chu Xuan took a sip of tea, put the tea cup down on the tea tray and said, "Brother Liu, are all screenwriters proficient in character design, scene description, dialogue description, and shot description?"
They just want to know what happened when the boss found them?
"This is equivalent to increasing the labor cost of screenwriters and shortening the production process of film and television dramas, thereby increasing the company's development speed."
This also made them more and more interested in this program, and they became more and more serious in this second stage of adaptation.
"Yes." Chu Xuan nodded heavily, looked at him and said: "Because of this, we have to make changes to change the creative ideas of those screenwriters, so that there will no longer be too much burden to subdivide the work of screenwriters. In this way
When they are responsible for their own part of the work, will their thinking become clearer? Will the scripts be written better? Will it also improve the writing efficiency? Thus improving the time schedule of the entire script planning stage?"
This thing sounds very passionate. The film and television industry is industrialized. It feels a little bit exciting to be able to participate in such a groundbreaking thing.
Liu Yi looked at Han Sanping and then at Chu Xuan. Although he didn't know why Han Sanping was here but Chu Xuan was the speaker, he had no intention of guessing.
When Bright Times was founded at the end of 2004, Liu Yi was recruited by Wang Jinhua as the manager of the Literature Department of Bright Times after Zhang Jizhong recommended him, and he was also the head of this department.
When Chu Xuan put down the teapot, Liu Yicai continued: "If what I just mentioned is successful and slowly spreads across the country, it will change many screenwriters in the country and even affect the creative ideas of many screenwriter teams."
Enjoying the generous wages and benefits of the Brilliant Era, they also feel the benefits of relying on a large company compared to their previous career drifting with the tide.
"Yes." Han Sanping crossed his legs and nodded slightly.
"Okay." Long Danni agreed. She didn't ask any more questions and went straight to the front office.
"As Teacher Gong said, if you subdivide the work of screenwriters, the work of screenwriters will become simpler. Simplicity means that you have more energy to carefully refine each component of the script, making the script more perfect and more creative.
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"When the Screenwriters Association was established, its core purpose was to solve survival problems for screenwriters across the country. Have they solved it?"
And you’re still looking for screenwriters like them?
Everyone was a little confused for a while, but they didn't dare to neglect, went downstairs to the parking lot, got in the car, and headed towards the glorious era.
Once Chu Xuan and Han Sanping's screenwriting industrialization ideas for film and television are successful and accepted by the market, it will redefine the script creation process and lower the entry barrier for screenwriters. It is destined to enable more screenwriters to have a full meal and make people more comfortable.
More people are joining this industry.
Liu Yi also lowered his head slightly and said nothing.
And just now Chu Xuan came to give the keynote speech, so it seems that Chu Xuan and Han Sanping have reached a consensus.
Liu Yi paused for a moment, exhaled and said: "I think the Screenwriters Association does not want to see such changes. The threshold for screenwriters will be lowered and the status of top screenwriters will be shaken. This will affect their interests."
Liu Yifei smoothed her hair and said: "Brother Liu, it's like "Zhu Xian". When you led the team to coordinate, until Chu Xuan and I joined, it took a total of half a year to complete. One script only took half a year,
The filming only took five months, and the script planning took too long. If we can speed up this aspect, that would be a great thing."
It was also at that time that the film and television company issued invitations, and well-known screenwriters such as Yang Dongxu, Gong Geer, and Ye Junzi were invited to sign with the film and television company and became members of the screenwriters of the literature department, and each held a supervisory-level middle management position.
Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, Wang Jinhua, and Liu Xiaoli smiled slightly.
"According to the character design and story structure, well-written screenwriters write scenes, experienced screenwriters write dialogues, logically rigorous and imaginative screenwriters design sub-shot scripts, and finally the chief screenwriter team reorganizes the script to form a complete script."
Liu Yifei opened the small notebook and said according to what was recorded: "Recruiting screenwriters, the teachers will train them according to the ideas we just discussed and redefine the way of creating scripts."
Hearing Han Sanping's words, Liu Yi and the others nodded, fully understanding the meaning of calling them here.
The young couple discussed their idea of industrializing screenwriting again at home in the morning to make the logic clearer. After having a meal at home at noon, they rushed to the company with Liu Xiaoli.
Liu Yi came to the screenwriting department's office, knocked on the door, turned the door handle, and opened the door. He looked in at the door: "Lao Yang, Lao Gong, Lao Ye."
"No." Gong Geer crossed his arms and shook his head, saying, "It sounds more complicated, but from a screenwriter's point of view, it becomes simpler."
Liu Yi nodded slightly and said as he passed by Long Danni: "Lao Yang and the others are going back to the company. Mr. Wang has something to do over there. If there is anything over here, just call us."
"Using science fiction as an experimental work..." Liu Yi said as expected: "I knew it was like this."
Since we want to industrialize film and television, we must experiment with film and television dramas that can connect the entire production process.
Liu Yi weighed the pros and cons. Perhaps staying in the Brilliant Era for a long time gave him a sense of belonging and the habit of being in a high position.
It is only in line with his status that such a person meets a big director, a big producer, and a big capital.
Special effects are also part of script creation.
"He has to consider not only how to adapt the scene descriptions of the novel into scene descriptions suitable for film and television, but also how the characters' personalities can be adapted logically into film and television dialogues, and how the literary scripts he writes can be adapted to later use.
The storyboard script is written and rewritten or rewritten at any time.”
Chu Xuan is the boss of the company, so it is normal for him to appear here.
"Well, we all are." Liu Yi nodded, and the next moment he said bitterly: "But I have a hunch that if we take over this matter and lead it to success, then we may be kicked out by them."
What Chu Xuan said was difficult for them to accept for a while.
Will the writing of storyboard scripts be separated from the complete process of screenwriting, and be written exclusively by a unified screenwriter?
Finally, the coordinating screenwriter will coordinate and merge the separated screenwriting parts into one to form a complete script?
Bright Times established a film and television company at the end of last year, and the overall planning of the literature department was transferred to the film and television company, from the head office to the branch.
"That's it." Wang Jinhua spoke for the first time, thought for a moment, and said, "Teachers, please follow the idea just now and set a training schedule. If you want to have detailed content, I will ask all departments of the company to cooperate with you."
"Dear teachers." Chu Xuan picked up the teapot and poured tea for Liu Yi and the others, and said with a smile: "If we were passive, we could only follow the trend; but now we have the initiative, the ability, the funds, and the methods to make things that we can."
Changes that make the industry better, then why don’t we change it?”
"Okay." They agreed.
Han Sanping nodded slightly, glanced at the crowd and said: "The significance of reform is to shift the focus of social development from short-term interests to long-term goals, so as to achieve social renewal and sustainable development."
"Our ideas can benefit more screenwriters and have the potential to update the screenwriting market."
