Several new subsidiaries of the group have been established, each with offices in different urban areas, and the couple has not yet visited them in person.
When I arrived at the office space of Bright Times Creative Literature Company, I realized that it really lived up to its reputation as a creative company. The company’s location selection was really creative.
It is a "back"-shaped building structure similar to a courtyard house, with an open air in the middle, some trees and green plants on the ground, and a small pond in the center.
It covers an area of 1,800 square meters, and the total office area on the four sides is 1,500 square meters. There are no additional floors, only one floor.
It is a few hundred meters away from the city's main road, so the nearby environment is relatively quiet, making it a good place to create.
"It was originally a small clothing production workshop. It was rented out when it was not well managed. I used to go shopping here when I was looking for inspiration. I was very impressed by this place. When the company was established, I chose this place." Liu Yihe.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei were walking in the small open-air space in the middle.
"This is a good place, comfortable." Liu Yifei looked at the green plants and the pond, and felt very comfortable with the environment.
"When the company builds the group park, it is strongly recommended to set aside a separate area for the literary company. A better environment will be more conducive to creation." Liu Yi suggested.
"You can consider it." Chu Xuan nodded: "It's really difficult to concentrate on creating when you work in an office building. In a workshop-style office like this, just walking around will make you feel better."
"Brother and senior sister." Fumino opened the door to the patio from the north office area. He came out after using the toilet and heard that senior brother and senior sister were here, so he rushed over as soon as possible.
Chu Xuan looked at him and smiled: "You don't plan to go back to the film company, do you? You live in the literature company?"
Fumino has been deeply involved in this industry since he produced "Hope" in the past few years. He also followed the path of film director. After the company's group personnel were allocated, he naturally joined Bright Times Pictures and obtained some shares of the film company.
It's just that this guy doesn't stay at his own company and keeps running to the literary company every day, which is quite interesting.
"The film company has nothing to do with me, and I'm not the manager. I have to keep an eye on the story line of the "Hope" trilogy and the industrialization of screenwriting. I have to keep an eye on it with Old Liu. Isn't this allowed to live here?" Fumino said.
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Hearing this, Liu Yifei couldn't help but ask: "How is the progress of "Hope"?"
"It's still early." Liu Yi said: "The story of the series needs to be unified. There are too many details and elements, and the special effects must be completed step by step. Anyway, you are not in a hurry, just go step by step. The script is slow and the special effects are fast.
It won’t affect efficiency much.”
As early as last year when we implemented the industrialization project of screenwriting, we decided to use the script creation of "Hope" to conduct industrial experiments for screenwriters. The script creation of "Hope" is destined to be inefficient, and everything is to provide innovative ideas and innovations for industrialization.
direction.
However, just because the script has not been finalized does not mean that the special effects have not been produced. Taking the synopsis of the "Hope" short film as the core inspiration, the former special effects department and now the digital special effects company have been perfecting the special effects simulation in the sci-fi direction of "Hope" every day for the past two years.
and production, and achieve the work goal of increasing special effects inventory.
By then, with sufficient special effects inventory, the post-production time of "Hope" will be shortened significantly.
So, the script creation efficiency is low and the special effects production efficiency is accelerated. From an overall perspective, the overall production efficiency of "Hope" will not be greatly affected.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei understand this truth, and the current focus is on the industrialization of screenwriting. Everything is based on this matter, and the couple is not in a hurry for success.
"By the way." Chu Xuan asked: "Has the sci-fi short film lecture been held? How was the effect?"
From the topic of "Hope", he suddenly remembered what Han Sanping said, and held a sci-fi short film theme conference with the theme of "Hope" for the directing department, photography department, literature department and industry insiders of the National Art Academy.
When he and Fumino were preparing a proposal documentary, Fumino said it would be held during the summer vacation. He was curious about the effect, so he asked.
"It hasn't started yet." Wen Muye shook his head: "There is the Olympics in the summer vacation, and school starts in September, but it has been pushed to the National Day next month."
It hasn’t started yet?...Chu Xuan was a little surprised, but people in the industry were really busy during the Olympics, so it was understandable that the theme meeting was postponed to the National Day, so he didn’t say anything more.
A group of people came to the office. The three gold medal screenwriting teachers Ye Junxi, Yang Dongxu, and Gong Ge were all there. Chu Xuan opened his mouth and said: "Teachers, please help us."
Yang Dongxu immediately joked: "Let me tell you, the boss and the boss's wife come to the Three Treasures Hall for everything. They definitely don't just come to have a look."
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei smiled and followed Liu Yi to sit down on the sofa.
Fumino was sitting at the tea tray seat, fiddling with the tea sets and preparing to make tea.
"Any other story inspiration?" Liu Yi asked.
"The one who knows us is Brother Liu." Liu Yifei showed her face.
Liu Yi smiled slightly and crossed his legs.
If there is anything else, just make a phone call and talk to them. If the couple comes to the literary company to see them in person, it will most likely only be about the script. It is not difficult to guess.
"That's right, I'll make a long story short." Chu Xuan said: "Although Sissi and I haven't set a date for our marriage, we thought it would be meaningful if we could make an urban idol drama to commemorate our relationship.
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Wen Muye lowered his head to make tea, raised his eyebrows and said, "Brother and sister are really good at playing."
Liu Yi, Yang Dongxu, Ye Junzi and Gong Geer were also happy, it turned out that this was the case.
As Fumino said, these two are really good at playing. They want to film a romantic drama as a souvenir at the stage of entering the marriage hall. This is something that many couples and actors in the industry want to do but cannot achieve.
But these two couples have the resources and capital to make a drama as a commemoration at this emotional stage. This is also of special significance, and they can understand this.
"Have you got any inspiration? Or should we help you come up with a story?" Liu Yidao.
"I have an inspiration." Chu Xuan crossed his legs and said, "We are all old acquaintances. You are familiar with me and Sissy after we have been together for so many years. You also know our experiences very well."
Liu Yi nodded. From the time they collaborated and got along with each other in "The Condor" in 2005 to this day, he knows best the performance style, performance level and artistic thoughts and concepts of this couple. Otherwise, "Hope" and "Legend of Red Flame"
》The male and female protagonists and plots of the two works cannot be customized for them.
He also knows the experiences of these two couples very clearly. Apart from their family members, he is the outsider and good friend who knows them best.
Just listen to Chu Xuan say: "So, if I hadn't been with Liu Yifei in the past few years, what would Liu Yifei have experienced in these years?"
Several people present were stunned. They were all professional film and television people, and they instantly understood what Chu Xuan meant.
"I understand." Liu Yi turned to look at Ye Junzi and others and said, "This is fictional reality."
"Yes." Ye Jun nodded, looked at Chu Xuan and said, "Chu Xuan, the term for your idea in script creation is called fictional reality, which is a hypothetical materialization of a non-existent reality."
Yang Dongxu said: "This is different from fantasy. It must pay attention to realistic logic and have a certain basis in reality. Is this what you think?"
"Yes, yes." Chu Xuan nodded repeatedly. As expected of a group of professionals, he understood everything just after he said the last sentence.
Wen Muye poured a cup of tea, and Liu Yifei took it and put it on the tea tray, saying: "Actually, at the beginning, I thought that the TV series would be made according to our real-life experiences, but Chu Xuan said that there was no conflict in our feelings, and it would not be the same if it was made into a TV series.
There is a lot of drama, but the story has no ups and downs, and the overall effect of the TV series is not very good."
Liu Yi said: "If you shoot it completely based on reality, it's not a TV series, it's a documentary."
"Yes." Liu Yifei suddenly realized that her idea was an element of the documentary.
Chu Xuan said: "We have just discussed it among ourselves. If we are not together, based on Sissi's past route and experience, and my aunt's behavior, we will definitely face many difficulties in the entertainment industry. To design the story along this route
Is it easy to do? What will be the effect?"
Everyone present was thinking silently. Based on some understanding of Liu Yifei and her mother, if Chu Xuan did not exist, it would be hard to say clearly. But judging from the fact that the mother and daughter did not sign with any entertainment company at the time, why would they be suppressed by capital?
will definitely happen.
Thinking of this, Liu Yi completely understood the couple's thinking.
There is no conflict in the couple's real feelings, so they have to fabricate a period of reality to create a conflict.
Conflict is the core element of the TV series to complete the emotional story in their minds.
"There is no problem with this idea." Liu Yi said: "Based on this idea, Sissy's story line is ready. The heroine is a star, and she doesn't want to get involved in the muddy waters of the entertainment industry, so she doesn't sign a contract with the company. The company that doesn't sign a contract has a bad reputation in the industry.
It’s very eye-catching, so there is pressure from capital, and the heroine’s story can have ups and downs if it is designed along this line.”
"That's good." Chu Xuan nodded. With Liu Yi's guarantee, he was completely reassured about whether his inspiration could design an excellent story.
"What about you, senior brother?" Wen Muye handed Chu Xuan tea. Senior sister had a story line and was curious about what senior brother's story line was.
Chu Xuan took the tea cup and took a sip of tea. Just as he was about to speak, Liu Yifei complained: "He wants to be a hero, come through time and fall from the sky to be my white moonlight."
Wen Muye made a "puff" sound, and Liu Yi and the three teachers on the desk laughed.
"Time travel?" Liu Yi took the tea cup from Wen Muye and said, "Do you want some science fiction elements in the urban idol drama?"
Chu Xuan put down his tea cup and said: "After filming two science fiction films, "Hope" and "At the Gate", my mind is a bit big now."
Liu Yi couldn't help but laugh, picked up the tea cup and drank tea, thinking about how to deal with the "travel" element according to Chu Xuan's imaginative thinking.
In this current situation, Chu Xuan is his client.
As a screenwriter, he will not consider whether the client's request is suitable or not, but will give priority to how to perfectly combine and integrate the client's request.
If he really can't do it, he will deny the customer's idea and put forward what he thinks is a better suggestion.
This is the reason why Liu Yi has strong creative ability. He can accept any fantasy elements and concepts, instead of shouting "this is impossible", "this is unrealistic", "this is not realistic" like other screenwriters when encountering a conflict of ideas.
"In line with the market" and so on.
Weak screenwriters must follow their own ideas.
A strong screenwriter who can take into account any ideas you put forward.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei often think that they are really lucky to have a "royal" screenwriter like Liu Yi.
"The element of time travel is suitable in the two eras of ancient and modern times. The audience can distinguish it clearly, and it is not difficult to edit later."
"But if it is placed between cities, how should it be edited to reflect the two similar era backgrounds? If the editing is not done well, the audience will not understand it."
"Unless you have traveled from ancient times, but if the ancients travel to modern times, such a character design is also incompatible, and it is difficult for the characters to be logically consistent."
"Unless you, an ancient person, are an immortal and have lived from ancient times to modern times, but in this case, the sense of substitution will not be strong, and it will destroy the authenticity of the story line of the heroine Sissi."
Listening to Liu Yi muttering to himself, Chu Xuan was really impressed.
Didn't Professor Dou in "My Love from the Star" originally come from ancient life to modern times?
Liu Yi's casual words directly pointed out the inspiration for the characters that may be set in the future in South Korea, and denied them. Obviously, he did not agree with Professor Dou, a character who is already several hundred years old.
The story can be fake, but the characters cannot be too fake, otherwise the whole story will be false. This is one of Liu Yi's screenwriting concepts.
"Let's change the concept of time travel." Liu Yi seemed to have an idea. He woke up from his meditation, looked at Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei and said: "If you want to add some science fiction elements, you can try virtual games."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Virtual game?" Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei were stunned for a moment. They thought their imaginations were big, but they didn't expect Liu Yi's imaginations to be even greater than theirs.
big.
Urban idol drama...
Virtual games…
Is there any connection between the two?
Not to mention them, even Wen Muye and the three teachers at the desk were stunned for a moment. At the same time, they were curious about Liu Yi's thoughts, and they all listened carefully.
Liu Yi looked at Chu Xuan and said the inspiration that came to him on the spur of the moment.
"You are a cancer patient in a parallel time and space. You are suffering from chemotherapy and can only lie in the hospital bed waiting to die. Your world is very technologically advanced and virtual games exist. You can only find comfort by entering the virtual game while waiting to die in the hospital bed.
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"However, there was a problem with your virtual game device and you were transported to the earth where Sissi is."
"The earth is the real world, not the virtual world, but you think you are in the virtual world."
"You and Sissi met. Sissi was suppressed by capital and was depressed, which resonated with you. Because you are going to die, you are also depressed and unhappy deep down."
"You two unhappy and lonely people will cherish each other and comfort each other without even realizing it."
Halfway through Liu Yi's words, Liu Yifei's eyes lit up: "This is good, we are each other's white moonlight, this is also mutual support."
Liu Yi smiled: "Don't you want to make a drama based on real feelings as a souvenir? I made it based on your actual situation."
"Brother Liu understands us so well." Liu Yifei sighed.
Chu Xuan nodded slightly, Liu Yi knew them very well, and every few words of inspiration were tailor-made for them.
At the same time, the couple became full of interest because of Liu Yi's inspiration.
Change the concept of time travel and turn it into a virtual game.
A big conflict can arise here. The male protagonist thinks he is in a virtual world, but in fact he is in the real world. That can lead to a lot of interesting stories.
"There are three basic conflicts in TV dramas. The first is the inner conflict of the characters, the second is the common conflict of interest, and the third is the conflict of choices that runs through the whole drama."
"What you mentioned, and what I just said, is that the male and female protagonists have their own story lines."
"In the story line of the heroine, she just wants to be a star and does not want to be controlled by capital, so there will be a conflict of interest between the heroine and capital."
"In the story line of the male protagonist, he and the female protagonist have sympathy for each other, so he fights against injustices for the female protagonist and fights against capital together with the female protagonist, that is, the villain. The male protagonist also has a conflict of interest."
"When the male and female protagonists support each other, feelings will always arise. But for the female protagonist, a celebrity announcing their relationship is something that will affect her career, but she can't help herself from her love for the male protagonist, and the female protagonist has an inner conflict."
"The male protagonist also fell in love with the female protagonist, but the male protagonist believed that this was a virtual world and love was fruitless. The male protagonist also had inner conflicts."
"As for the big conflict of choices that runs through the whole play, it depends on what kind of result you want. The tragedy is that the male and female protagonists are not from the same world, and they are not together in the end. The comedy is that the male protagonist finds the female protagonist across time and space, and is with her.
The Lord goes in both directions.”
"Of course it's a comedy!" Liu Yifei agreed: "Isn't it unhealthy to film a tragedy as a souvenir for yourself?"
Chu Xuan nodded and said happily: "It's the right time to come today. The story line came up so quickly, and it sounds very interesting."
He and Liu Yifei looked at each other: "Just follow this?"
"Okay!" Liu Yifei was very interested.
Ye Jun stood up and walked over, saying: "If you go by this, it will be a comedy in the front, a tragedy in the back, and a reversal in the finale."
Yang Dongxu said after him: "Yes, the heroine fell into a trough at the beginning, but it changed with the arrival of the hero. The bright spot in the future is destined to be on the career line, breaking the layer after layer of blockades set by capital, which is also a challenge to the hero and heroine.
Emotions provide the foundation."
"The subsequent transition from career to romance uses the inner conflict between the male and female protagonists as the ups and downs, which heightens the audience's understanding that the male and female protagonists are not in the same world, thus heightening the audience's strong desire for the male and female protagonists to be together."
"The finale is a twist. The male protagonist travels across time and space to seek true love, and he and the female protagonist go in both directions, achieving the climax of the plot."
Gong Geer sat in the office chair and said: "The creation of this script is very simple. The plot revolves around the two of you from beginning to end, and there is no need for branch lines. The simplest linear structure of a straight line, only the need for
The main line can be laid out layer by layer, and the finale can go both ways to achieve the greatest climax and a perfect ending."
Fumino made a suggestion: "I think one thing to pay attention to is to let the audience know from the beginning that the male protagonist is not in the virtual world, but in the real world. Only in this way can the audience be fully anticipated. If it happens later,
If we tell the audience that the male protagonist is actually in the real world, the audience will feel uncomfortable."
"Yes." Liu Yi agreed with this suggestion: "The audience should know this from the beginning. The male protagonist thinks he is in a virtual world. Will the male protagonist be with the female protagonist? How? A man who thinks he is
How do the male protagonists who are gamers get along with the female protagonists in the real world? This will arouse the greatest expectations of the audience."
Chu Xuan patted the sofa and said: "What you said made me think and inspire. I am a gamer. When I see the people I like being bullied, it doesn't matter if you are capital or something, in my eyes
It’s all a bunch of data. I can step on capital and punch gangsters without fear.”
"Hahaha..." Liu Yifei laughed with everyone.
Liu Yi took a sip of tea and said cheerfully: "This is your character's logical behavior. You can design some pretentious plots and still appear reasonable. You have a reason to be fearless."
"Furthermore, whether the heroine is suppressed, abused online, or bullied in any way, it actually doesn't matter to you, because you think this is just a game world and everything is fake."
"It is precisely because of your calm attitude and your free and easy mood before death that you infected the heroine, became her Bai Yueguang, and gradually made her stronger."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Then, the heroine mustered up the courage to take the initiative to fight against capital, rebuked the darkness of the industry in person, publicly challenged capital in front of media cameras, and was confident on the stage
Let's shine, won't these climax plots just come naturally?"
Chu Xuan became more and more interested as he listened, and said: "If you say so, we can also add some materials and film some dirty things in the industry to add some authenticity and drama."
Liu Yi put down the teacup and said, "That's what I said, do you really plan to add some spices?"
"Why not." Chu Xuan looked at him.
"Okay, since you're responsible, I'll add some more information. I really know some things." Liu Yi also became interested.
"You should take it easy and don't ruin Sissi's image." Ye Jun sat down on the sofa.
"How come, if Sissi is the heroine and something dirty happens, she shouldn't slap her back?" Liu Yi asked.
Wen Muye stroked his palms, full of interest: "After the script is written, I want to read it first. It sounds interesting. I really want to see the scene where the senior brother and senior sister beat the capital."
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei laughed. They were getting further and further away from each other, but the more they did, the more interesting they became.
Today was indeed not in vain. Liu Yi’s creative ability is really strong. He explained the three-act framework of the entire story very clearly in just a few sentences.
The story begins: The male protagonist comes to the world of the female protagonist through the game device, meets and cherishes the female protagonist who is at a low point.
Story process: The male and female protagonists join forces to break the capital prison, the female protagonist's career flourishes, and she and the male protagonist have a solid emotional foundation.
At the end of the story: the male and female protagonists have emotional entanglements due to inner conflicts, and finally break up the entanglements and realize a two-way journey across time and space.
The framework has been completed, and all that remains is to establish the project and create a specific plot around the framework during script coordination. Then the team can be assembled, cast and filming can begin.
But before that, there is another big thing.
"This drama also needs to consider cooperation with Zhou Jielun. The other party hopes to integrate all eleven songs from the album into the plot, so that these eleven songs have a coherent story system like a TV series." Chu Xuan said.
Everyone was stunned, why was such a thing still involved?
Zhou Jielun? Of course they know who it is.
However, when a music album cooperates with a TV series, it is also necessary to achieve the purpose of story coherence for all the music in the entire album. This is unprecedented and unheard of.
But when these three people, Zhou Jielun, Chu Xuan, and Liu Yifei are combined together, the market energy that explodes is very exciting to think about.
Not to mention the rest, the cooperation of these three people also made Liu Yi and the others even more interested.
"This is his album, which contains his music. The teachers have taken the time to listen to it in the past two days to see if there is any possibility of integrating it with the story frame we just told." Chu Xuan took out the USB flash drive and gave it to Liu Yi.
"We will come over in the next two days to discuss the possibility of cooperation. If there is a possibility of cooperation, please ask Brother Liu to come with us to discuss ideas and creativity with Zhou Jielun and his agent," Liu Yifei said.
Liu Yi took the USB flash drive: "This is the first time I've heard of such a cooperation from the perspective of script creation. It's interesting. Let me listen to the song first."
"Listen, let's go have a meal. We haven't eaten anything all day." Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei got up, walked out of the office, and had lunch with the company employees.
