In the eyes of everyone, Liu Yi opened the browser on his laptop but made no unnecessary moves.
Everyone was curious and wondered what Liu Yi was going to do when he opened the browser.
There was no time to think too much, so Liu Yi raised his head, looked at them and said, "As we all know, no matter before or now, most film and television dramas have original novels, and the corresponding film and television drama scripts are adapted from the original novels."
Everyone present nodded. Even those who were not professionals understood that this was the case, and anyone who thought about it should know that this was the case.
"What about originality? How to write a script if there is no original novel?"
Hearing Liu Yi's words, some people raised their eyebrows and were surprised for a moment. Original?
The next moment they understood in their hearts, isn't "Hope" original?
Thinking of this, they also focused on the issue itself.
How to write a script without the original work?
"The chief screenwriter must formulate the outline and story structure of the original story, and then the screenwriter will design and write the plot of each story stage based on the outline and story structure."
A young man with broken hair and glasses answered. It was obvious that he had a background as a screenwriter and could answer fluently.
Liu Yi said "hmm" to him, nodded and smiled: "But I don't want to show you the outline and story structure, so how do you think I will let you write the script?"
Everyone was speechless and shocked, and those who were screenwriters were even more shocked.
What did they hear? If there is no reference to the original novel, no story outline and story structure, how can you write a script? Do you write it out of thin air?
The outline allows the screenwriter to roughly know what the story is about, and the story structure allows the screenwriter to control the rhythm of the story when writing the script.
If you don't show these two most basic things, how about writing a ghost script?
I don’t even know what to write, so how should I write?
They were very surprised, but the smile on Liu Yi's face calmed them down and made them look forward to it.
Before coming, they had been informed by an email from Bright Times that they were sincerely invited to participate in the exploration of a new script creation model.
When Liu Yi said this, it seemed that he was going to reveal the answer, which aroused their strong curiosity.
With everyone watching, Liu Yi put his hands on the keyboard again and started typing.
An unknown URL was quickly entered into the browser's URL bar. There was a "pop" sound of Anbo pressing the Enter key, and the webpage jumped to another page in an instant.
Bright Times Screenwriter Industrial Factory??
Everyone was stunned when they saw the site name on the web page.
"This is an internal website developed by the company's technical team, specifically to serve screenwriters' creative projects. It is intended to speed up the script creation process, thereby improving the efficiency of script formation."
After saying this, everyone was surprised. A website dedicated to screenwriters?
The status of screenwriters is low and their creations are unstable. Most domestic entertainment companies do not have their own fixed screenwriting teams.
Even if there is a team of screenwriters who work together regularly, there are only a few people in that team. How can the company behind it develop a website for just a few people?
But the scene they saw before them made them realize that this was what they did in that era.
Developing a website specifically for screenwriters is unprecedented and unheard of, and it is even estimated that few people in the industry will consider this aspect.
They were dumbfounded for a moment and didn't know what to say. Developing a website for screenwriters was a bit beyond their current knowledge.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei looked at the curtain with great interest, developing a website that serves screenwriters, and it is a functional website that combines the industrialization process of screenwriters. This idea was proposed by him.
His purpose in proposing this idea is to completely transfer the screenwriter's work from offline to online. Using the convenience of functional programs may reduce the tediousness of the script creation process and thereby improve efficiency.
He just proposed this concept. Whether it can be realized depends on Liu Yi and others. Only truly professional people like them know how to design the website to improve efficiency.
It is purely an internal website that does not need to be opened to the outside world. This is a relatively simple project and does not cost money. It can be completed for ten to two hundred thousand.
The film and television company has its own server to save some time in assembling the server. The outsourcing technical team hired by Liu Yi has been developing it a month ago and has been developing it until now.
A few days ago, I heard Liu Yi say that some functions of the website have been completed and can be supplemented with lectures in training. He and Liu Yifei came here today. In addition to attending class, their biggest purpose was also because they were curious about this website and wanted to take a look at it.
What exactly is the content of the website designed based on his ideas?
"The website has three modes, screenwriter mode, co-ordinator mode and director mode."
"Currently, only the screenwriter mode has been developed. You don't need to pay attention to the other two modes for the time being. Now I will use this website to use the screenwriter mode to tell you about your specific work process after you join the Brilliant Era.
"
After hearing this, everyone became very interested.
Use the website for script writing?
This is a very new thing.
This is also a way of working that feels very advanced.
Liu Yi entered his account password and then logged in to the website.
The website is white and very clean, but many places are still blank, obviously the functions are not perfect yet.
Under everyone's attention, the cursor clicked on a label called [Creation Library], and the page jumped again.
"I wrote a few examples on the website in advance. Everyone is smart, so you should know what's going on after taking a look."
Liu Yi said, operating the mouse to click on a label called [Get Proposition Book] on the current page.
Everyone saw words appearing in the originally white and empty module——
[Proposition category: a type of proposition.
Era: modern twentieth century.
Scene: Luxury cruise ship.
Main character one: Chu Feng, male protagonist, 28 years old, mechanical engineer, sunny and handsome, upright, affectionate, and humorous.
Main character two: Liu Qian, the heroine, 24 years old, a psychiatrist, beautiful and generous, elegant, decisive, and good at weighing pros and cons.
Character relationship: an unmarried couple, loving each other, without any twists and turns in their relationship.
The starting point of the incident: the wedding scene.
Starting point atmosphere: joy.
Turn of events: A tsunami occurred before the wedding was consummated.
Turning atmosphere: panic.
The end of the event: the rest of the people died, and the hero and heroine survived on the rooftop.
Ending atmosphere: dead end.
Screen: Large panoramic group portrait.]
Seeing the text presented on the web page, people who are not screenwriters are constantly curious.
Chu Feng?
Liu Qian?
Aren't they the male and female protagonists in "Hope"?
Some people turned to look at Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei. The young couple were also amused. They didn't expect Liu Yi to use their characters as examples.
Seeing such a function and interesting label definitions for the first time, the young couple was as interested as everyone present.
These people turned around and went back, thoughtfully, and seemed to have a clear understanding.
The eyes of several people who were screenwriters also showed high interest, and they quickly understood the meaning. A young man wearing a peaked cap and pigtails couldn't help but said: "Teacher Liu, according to the standard definition above
To write a plot?"
Liu Yi stood up and nodded slightly: "Not bad."
Under the gaze of everyone, Liu Yi stretched out his hand and patted the curtain gently: "With these definitions, do you still need to read the story outline? And the story structure?"
He shook his head and asked himself: "It's not necessary at all."
Liu Yifei blinked and turned her head to see what Chu Xuan wanted to say, but private communication was not very good during class, so she kept thinking about what Liu Yi said.
The proposition labels and text definitions on the web page are very clear and concise.
Characters, character designs, scenes, beginning of events, turning of events, ending of events, visual effects... all the elements needed for a plot are there.
If you are a non-professional, it may still be difficult to write a wonderful plot based on these labels and definitions.
But for screenwriters, these labels and definitions have given them the basic conditions for writing plots.
As Liu Yi said, with these labels and definitions, you can write the plot without reading the outline.
But if you don’t look at the story structure, how to grasp the rhythm and cohesion of the story?
A lady in a white suit had the same doubts as Liu Yifei: "Teacher Liu, I don't know the previous plot, nor the following plot, so how do I know whether the plot I wrote is in line with the rhythm of the whole story? Does it fit in with the context?"
"
Everyone looked at Liu Yi, waiting for him to answer their questions.
Liu Yi stretched out his right hand to pick up the tea cup from the table, and pointed at the curtain with his left hand: "As long as you write the most exciting plot that you can imagine based on the above standard definition, the rest has nothing to do with you."
Seeing that everyone was still a little confused, Liu Yi pointed his finger at the [End of Event] label on the curtain: "The starting point and end point of the event are fixed, which means that the beginning and end of the current plot are fixed. Do you still need to worry about the rhythm of the story? Worry?
Contextual connection?”
Liu Yi opened the teacup and took a sip of water, then put the teacup down and got the next proposition.
Everyone looked up and saw that the text on the web page changed——
[Proposition category: a type of proposition.
Era: modern twentieth century.
Scene: Rooftop.
Main character one: Chu Feng, the male protagonist...
Main character two: Liu Qian, the heroine...
Character relationship: an unmarried couple, loving each other, without any twists and turns in their relationship.
The starting point of the event: Escape from the tsunami.
Starting point atmosphere: eager to survive.
Turn of events: Helicopter comes to the rescue.
Transition atmosphere: urgent and exciting.
The end of the event: the helicopter crashed.
Ending atmosphere: despair.
Screen: Large panoramic view of the male and female protagonists.】
Seeing another proposition, and this proposition was obviously immediately following the previous proposition on the cruise ship, the lady in a white suit understood. She couldn't help but say "oh~" in a long tone, and said: "I understand!"
"
"The plot of the story is completely broken, but it is consistent, but we, the screenwriters, do not need to consider these."
"For us, it is enough to write the complete plot of the obtained proposition. As for the subsequent plot, the screenwriter who obtained the subsequent proposition is responsible for it, right?"
Liu Yi smiled and nodded: "Very correct."
Seeing Liu Yi's affirmative answer, everyone present was surprised.
Only consider the current proposition and not other propositions.
Looking at it from another perspective, that is, the proposition is random and not coherent?
"Don't consider continuity or story rhythm, just focus on writing the current scene..." A young man in a black jacket hissed: "This definitely makes the difficulty of creation easier."
A lady in yellow said with great interest: "Today's screenwriters write scripts. The entire stage of the story, including all the characters who appear in this stage, is written by one screenwriter. The logical chain is very complicated."
"Teacher Liu broke the staged story into several small plots. According to the website's demonstration, we only need to write the obtained proposition plot, and the rest of the plot is none of our business."
"This not only makes it simpler, but also allows us to be more focused when creating, because we don't need to consider too many other elements."
For a screenwriter or author, the more you have to think about, the more difficult it will be to create.
Now the whole story is broken into pieces, and the connection between each piece does not need to be considered.
this……
"This is awesome! It subdivides the creative process to the extreme!"
"And each plot has a standard definition of a label. This is a norm. My God, is this not the rhythm of the film and television industrialization?"
Film and television industrialization?!
The people nearby looked at each other in confusion. Suddenly someone mentioned this, and combined with what Liu Yi said, they suddenly felt something, that was the true purpose of the Brilliant Era.
Industrialization of film and television... The Brilliant Era is really brave!
Everyone's hearts suddenly agitated. Now that the film market is just beginning to show signs of rising, Brilliant Era is ready to embark on a career that others can't even imagine?
So awesome!
As for the success of Brilliant Era, it is not within their scope to consider it. They just think that they seem to be able to participate in a big cause, which makes it difficult for them not to be excited.
"It's so interesting." Liu Yifei couldn't help but praise when she saw the chatter in the room gradually started.
Chu Xuan nodded and whispered: "The proposition is random. For screenwriters, it is equivalent to them not knowing which plot they will write next. The curiosity and fun brought by this unknown can allow a screenwriter to create in an otherwise boring and fixed way.
Their thinking becomes more flexible and interesting, and it also makes their thinking more divergent."
Liu Yifei nodded repeatedly, feeling that Teacher Liu Yi and the others were really creative and created such a novel and interesting creative model.
Hearing Chu Xuan's words, a young man in blue jeans sitting in the front row couldn't help turning his head and laughing: "Today I will write the plot of this character, and tomorrow I will write the plot of that character, and everyone's character is different. This is
A creative method that ordinary screenwriters cannot experience."
"And those labels and definitions just now are equivalent to the guidance given to us by Teacher Liu and others."
"With such guidance, it will definitely improve the screenwriter's writing skills, and also improve the screenwriter's ability to create characters with different personalities, thereby gaining wider experience accumulation. This creative model of Teacher Liu is really brilliant!"
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei smiled slightly. These invited people were obviously very interested in the creative model proposed by Liu Yi and initially agreed with it.
"Teacher Liu, what does a type of proposition mean?" someone suddenly asked.
After hearing this question, the people present gradually became quiet.
They had just been attracted by this novel creative method, and were also shocked by the sudden proposal of industrialization of film and television, but they did not notice some details on the web page tags for a while.
Hearing someone ask a question, they came back to their senses and looked up at the curtain.
Two consecutive propositional contents have a label of [proposition category] as [a type of proposition], but they don’t know its meaning.
Liu Yi answered their questions: "A type of proposition represents scene description. It only needs to write the general atmosphere of the scene and no dialogue."
"The second type of proposition represents dialogue description. It only needs to write the dialogue between the characters and not the scene."
"The third category of propositions represents special effects description. Based on the scene description, the nearby environment and scenes including weather, waves, cruise ships, architectural changes, etc. are detailed. The more details, the better."
"The four categories of propositions represent the shooting script. The shots are initially arranged based on the scene, dialogue and special effects description. After communicating with the director, the final shot script is completed."
Hearing this, people who are not screenwriters only feel curious and novel, and don’t have much experience.
Friends who were screenwriters were shocked when they heard Liu Yi's explanation.
"Damn it, this not only breaks the plot into several plots, but also breaks the plot into four parts!"
"This...how is this subdivision to the extreme? This is called subdivision to an outrageous level! It's too detailed!"
"I'm convinced. It was great without considering the continuity and rhythm of the plot. Now don't think about the dialogue, special effects and other other parts. If you do this, everyone can become a screenwriter! It's too easy!"
"Then you are wrong." Liu Yi shook his head and looked at the person who said "too simple".
Everyone looked at him, and Liu Yi smiled slightly: "Simple?"
He walked around for a while and said: "I and other teachers have made the creative process extremely detailed and simple, which is true. But when it becomes simpler, our requirements will naturally become higher."
"How can we immediately imagine the scene after just one look at the scene description?"
"How can we immediately think of the character's character and even image after reading a line?"
"How can we let us immediately feel the shock and catastrophe after just one glance at the description of the special effects?"
"How can we take a look at the shooting script and immediately imagine the final film through the shots you arranged?"
Liu Yi looked at the group of speechless people in the audience and said: "The three-dimensional sense of the scene, the sense of the characters in the dialogue, the shocking sense of the special effects, and the sense of the shots of the script."
"If you participate in this job after joining Bright Times and fail to achieve the results of all parts, then the manuscripts you submit on the website will be rejected by me indefinitely until the standards are met."
Everyone looked at each other, and when they heard what Liu Yi said, they were reminded of an old saying: The simpler something looks, the more difficult it is.
Liu Yi's model makes screenwriting very simple, but how do you make this very simple thing exciting?
As soon as they thought about it, they really thought about it at a lower level just now. This seemingly simple thing is actually not simple.
"Is it Hollywood standards?" someone asked half-jokingly and half-seriously.
Just now when Liu Yi said that he had to meet his standards, this man couldn't help but mentioned Hollywood.
Liu Yi looked at him and said warmly: "What does Hollywood have to do with us? The standards I'm talking about are Chinese film and television standards, the film and television standards of the Brilliant Era."
Everyone was suddenly startled. Is China Film and Television targeting Hollywood? Brilliant Era is targeting Hollywood?
Can this be understood to mean that Brilliant Era represents Chinese film and television?
So crazy!
But how can any young person not be frivolous? They just like this kind of company, so handsome!
The eyes of those present were filled with passion, and their hearts were filled with excitement.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei couldn't help but laugh. Liu Yi is indeed a veteran screenwriter who can easily arouse the audience's emotions with words. These few words made the friends present get excited.
Looking at the room full of enthusiastic people of the same age, the young couple looked at each other, and their eyes were filled with the fighting spirit to fight for their dreams for no apparent reason.
Liu Yi clapped his hands, and everyone present calmed down.
Liu Yi said: "After what I just said, you should also understand the general process of screenwriting work after joining Bright Era."
"After the training is completed this month, we will use this website to assess everyone next month."
"You have also seen the assessment method, which is to obtain different propositions and conduct a comprehensive test."
"In line with the principle of improving quality and efficiency based on individual differences, write scenes that suit the scene, write dialogue that suits the dialogue, write special effects that suit the special effects, and write shooting scripts and storyboards with strong lens imagination."
Everyone was stunned and nodded slowly.
Although this arrangement deprives them of some of the anticipated joy of writing, it is understandable.
Since the plot is also divided into four parts, let people who are good at each part write this part specifically, so the quality and efficiency will naturally be the highest.
"Under this creative mode, the goal given to me by the company is to improve the efficiency of existing script creation." Liu Yi said, "But I have a bigger goal."
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei raised their lips slightly and looked at Liu Yi curiously like everyone else, wanting to hear what Liu Yi's goal was.
"Because each creative step has a standardized label and a definition of the label, we can think of this creative model as an assembly line that can repeat tasks."
"And everyone here, including me." Liu Yi looked at the back row: "Including Teacher Ye, Teacher Gong and Teacher Yang, as well as the teachers from the company's literature department, they are all the assemblers who perfect the artwork on this assembly line.
"
"As those here and the subsequent batches of like-minded friends slowly adapt to this new creative model as their abilities gradually improve, they also get used to creating under the company's film and television standards."
Liu Yi looked at the crowd and pointed casually: "Then I have an expectation."
"Screenwriters in the first category first write the scene. After passing and composing the scene script, they take the script to the art director and props teacher to arrange the props and scenes."
"At the same time, the screenwriters of the second type of proposition write character dialogue according to the scene, and the screenwriters of the third type of proposition write the special effects according to the scene."
"After passing the script and combining it with the scene script to form a complete literary script, we start to select the plots of each character from the literary script to form a character script to prepare the actors for the audition."
"At the same time, screenwriters of the four categories write shooting scripts and storyboard scripts based on literary scripts."
Liu Yi raised an index finger to the sky: "In the end, I want to achieve a result. When the shooting script and storyboard script are written, the scene and props have been arranged, the actors have auditioned, and they are waiting for the on-site assistant director to check the scene and confirm that it is correct, directly
Start shooting!”
"As long as any film or television drama is created using this model, I will complete the entire process within half a year."
People who are not screenwriters don’t feel much about it, they just think it looks awesome.
Screenwriters were shocked again and again. Script coordination, crew formation, scene layout, and actor auditions started almost at the same time?
How many departments do you need to coordinate?
How much upfront capital does this require?
Does it mean that the process of operating the film crew in Brilliant Era also requires the industrialization of film and television?
If all the pre-production work is completed in half a year, it will most likely take one and a half years to start filming, add post-production to release.
If this year and a half is spent on ordinary film and television dramas, it would be nothing, but if it is spent on a special effects blockbuster and it is really done, it will be awesome.
People who are good at writing scripts can ensure quality and efficiency.
When the quality and efficiency of the prerequisite work are guaranteed, if the quality and efficiency can also be guaranteed during shooting and post-production...
The Brilliant Era can quickly produce high-quality blockbusters. If we really do this, the future entertainment industry will truly be called the Brilliant Era.
"Brother Liu has an idea." Chu Xuan nodded: "This goal is okay."
Liu Yifei showed her face slightly and said: "I hope it can come true."
Liu Yi sat back in his seat, opened his cup and took a sip of water: "I've finished what I'm going to talk about today. If you have any questions, you can ask them and let's discuss them together."
Faced with novel websites and novel creative models, everyone has a lot of doubts in their minds, and many people are eager to ask questions.
Liu Yifei looked at her watch and whispered: "Let's go."
Chu Xuan looked at his watch and it was already five o'clock in the afternoon. He raised his head and looked at Liu Yi, then turned his head towards the door and signaled to leave. Liu Yi nodded imperceptibly.
"Teachers, let's go first." Chu Xuan greeted Gong Geer and the others, then he and Liu Yifei got up and left the conference room quickly.
