Chu Xuan quickly walked back to the monitor and replayed the picture. Although it was not as perfect as Liu Yifei's encouragement from love, the overall effect was not bad at all, and such a small shot as a good start was not difficult.
Chu Xuan checked that there was no problem and once again handed over the director's position to Liu Yifei, and hurried back to the set without saying a word.
Liu Yifei and the teachers on the directing team were still waiting for Chu Xuan to say a word or two. Seeing his vigorous and resolute state, they were stunned for a moment and then laughed in amusement. After all, it was the first time for them to direct and act by themselves. This mentality
Can't stabilize for a while.
The studio is making adjustments and the actors are making preparations.
Liu Yifei paid attention to the situation on the set through the overall lens, waiting for Chu Xuan to give gestures and give orders for Chu Xuan.
The shooting plan is to complete the scene in the studio in two days. Like most actors, she has no scenes to shoot these two days, so she can relax. She can sit in the director's seat and experience the taste of directing, observe her husband's wonderful performance, and have more time to communicate with her.
Focus on handling production matters so as to be ready to focus on filming later.
But these two days will be very hard for Chu Xuan. Although there are not many scenes in the "real world", they are 100% concentrated. Every plot has a male protagonist, and every scene has Chu Xuan.
Every scene has to be directed and acted, both as an actor and as a director. You have to think twice, and you have to ensure the quality of the shooting. This is also a test for Chu Xuan.
However, she believed that Chu Xuan could handle all this.
The plot of the male protagonist Jock in the "real world" is planned to be one hour. This one-hour shot will run through the entire episode of "Star You", and will be cut into pieces in the later stage and interspersed with the corresponding time points of the story.
Therefore, in the process of the male protagonist Jiao Ke constantly traveling through time and space to allow the story to unfold, the corresponding parts of Chu Xuan's scenes were arranged to be filmed in the order of the story timeline.
By filming in the order of the story timeline, the actor's emotions will be progressive and the director's ideas will be smooth. This is very beneficial to Chu Xuan who is both directing and acting at this stage.
In addition, the role of Jiao Ke is largely based on Chu Xuan himself. Then Chu Xuan may not have to overact when dealing with the role. It may be enough to express his emotions naturally. This pair of directors and actors
It is more advantageous for Chu Xuan to save his performance energy and control the overall situation.
"The scorer's call!"
Liu Yifei put down the walkie-talkie, looked at the camera and flipped through the literary script, and relived the plot of the male protagonist Jock with the live performance of the scene.
Looking at all film and television dramas, there are differences in how the story starts and what kind of plot it starts with. Each director and screenwriter has his own concept and focus in this regard.
For example, in a suspense drama, you can throw out a suspense plot at the beginning to tell the audience where the suspense point is.
For example, in Xianxia dramas, there is a big special effects scene at the beginning to tell the audience where the so-called Xianxia is embodied.
For example, in a science fiction film, a science fiction scene is shown at the beginning to tell the audience the background of the story and the level of high technology.
No matter how it starts, the beginnings of film and television dramas on the market are inseparable from the explanation of the three elements of character identity, story background, and current situation. It's just that the order and arrangement of the presentation of these three elements are different in each drama.
As for the arrangement of these three elements in "Star You", after their discussion during the script planning stage, the explanation of the story background was placed in the first step.
In the shot:
Shot from behind, Chu Xuan is in front of a van on the street. The van is wrapped in green cloth, and in front of the van is a large green cloth wall.
In the plot, the van is an unmanned courier vehicle, and the male protagonist Jiao Ke, played by Chu Xuan, picks up the package.
Based on the description of the script, Liu Yifei imagined that the big green cloth wall would become a high-tech urban background after post-processing: under the sky full of neon lights, 3D projected celebrity pixel figures were advertising endorsements on both sides of the mid-air building, and the hollow area was
There are many flying cars flying at high speed, and then stop halfway to wait for the traffic light. The traffic light countdown appears in front of the fleet in the air in the form of virtual light effect numbers.
In such a high-tech era background, the male protagonist Jock appears on the street to pick up express delivery in a shanty town where there is not much high technology. The unmanned van wrapped in green cloth will also be processed into a technological product in the later stage.
There are no lines in this scene, and it mainly shows the historical background of the world where the male protagonist lives.
Although there are no lines, there are electronically synthesized sounds emitted by the unmanned delivery vehicle.
According to the script description, Jock came to the rear of the express truck and required facial scanning on the pop-up virtual screen, and then there was a prompt: Customer CXLYF305825, welcome to Star Express, we are happy to provide you with services.
Liu Yifei couldn't help but smile as she read the script.
CX is the abbreviation of Chu Xuan's name, LYF is the abbreviation of her name, 305 is Chu Xuan's birthday, and 825 is her birthday.
When she first thought about this sentence, customers always had to have a name or a string of numbers. Actually, she could just make up a random number, but she had a sudden idea and came up with the current string of numbers.
If you don't look carefully, you won't see anything.
But there must be careful people among her and Chu Xuan's fans. When they see this series of numbers, they may immediately think of its meaning. This can be regarded as a little easter egg. Anyway, she thinks it is quite interesting.
In addition to this electronically synthesized sound, after the courier truck automatically opened the cargo door, when Jiao Ke got on the car to look for his courier, there was a second prompt in the car: This courier was subject to the cooperation of the Star Logistics Central and South District Branch and the police.
Monitoring, supervision, customer CXLYF305825, please abide by the courier convention, and pick up your own courier only. Thank you for your cooperation.
These two electronic sounds were not available on the set and could only be dubbed later. Therefore, Chu Xuan needed to make up these two sentences by himself, and then control the rhythm of the performance to match the high-tech atmosphere embodied by these two sounds.
But it wasn't that difficult. After taking pictures three times, Chu Xuan got out of the car with two boxes of couriers wrapped around them, and walked a few steps toward the corridor, giving the courier truck time to take off and leave.
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"Good."
Liu Yifei put down the walkie-talkie and turned to the next page of the script.
Once the story background of the male protagonist is explained, the audience will immediately have an idea of what the world the male protagonist is in is like, and then they will not have any doubts about the high-tech existence of virtual helmets in the subsequent plot.
It is also the underlying logical chain of the story background, which can be exaggerated but cannot be eliminated.
The high-tech story background is presented, three elements complete one element, and then comes the arrangement and performance of the other two elements.
The other two factors are character identity and current situation.
The expression of the character's identity and current situation is very particular. It should be clear and concise without dragging the rhythm. Try to tell the audience who this person is, what kind of subject personality he is, and what the current situation is in the shortest possible time.
Usually for characters with iconic careers, it is very simple to reveal this aspect of the character.
For example, by using makeup to make an actor wear a police uniform, telling the audience that the character is a police officer, and then adding a pending case to tell the audience that the character has to handle the case, it can be solved in a few plots, and it is very clear.
For example, by setting up a scene and designing a stage, letting the characters show their personal style through the stage, telling the audience that the character is a star, and supplementing it with a suppressed plot, the identity of the character and the story to be unfolded will also be clearly expressed.
However, the male protagonist Jock has neither an iconic career nor a clear identity. To let the audience understand such a character, a simple design that generalizes to the above two points will not work. It requires some effort to create other methods to show all this.
"The scorer's call!"
The specific method used to display it depends on the core character of the character.
The character of the male protagonist Jock is decadent and taciturn, so it would not be in line with the main character of the character to have the male protagonist use a lot of lines to shape the character. In "Star You", the chief screenwriter has a question about how to let the audience understand the male protagonist Jock as quickly as possible.
Liu Yi's design uses a combination of self-monologue and communication with passers-by.
In the shot:
One behind-the-scenes follow-up shot and one front-on shot.
Chu Xuan is holding two express boxes and walking up the stairs. The two shots follow the rhythm of Chu Xuan going upstairs.
According to the description of the script, this scene of going upstairs contains an inner monologue that needs to be dubbed later.
[My name is Jiao Ke. In this era of rapid development, I am surviving in this poor and backward shanty town.
Obviously I should be young and vigorous, and strive for success in this materialistic society, but I can't do anything, I'm like a useless person.】
At this time, a couple of lovers came down from the upstairs, and they made way for Chu Xuan. Chu Xuan passed them by and continued to go upstairs.
【I am 25 years old and unmarried.
To put it nicely, he is unmarried, but to put it bluntly, he does not even have a girlfriend.
To put it nicely, I don’t have a girlfriend, but to put it bluntly, I haven’t even held a girl’s hand.
This is really a bit useless.]
Chu Xuan walked up the stairs, put down the box with a bang, bent slightly and put his hands on the box, breathing heavily.
[But I have no pursuit of these things. Whether I have a girlfriend or not, or whether I have a career or not, it doesn’t affect my mood.
As a man, such thoughts are either psychologically problematic or ideologically ill.
But this is me. I have terminal cancer. After several years of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, I have just been discharged from the hospital and waiting to die. The so-called good time of being born toward the sun, for me, I no longer have any desires or extravagances.】
"Click!"
"Go to the next game!"
This inner monologue was written by Chu Xuan himself, and is divided into three progressive levels of expression.
First, it expresses that the male protagonist has accomplished nothing in his career and is a useless person.
Later, he expressed that the male protagonist is still a pure virgin, he has never even touched a girl's hand, and has nothing in love, emphasizing the word "waste".
In the end, it was revealed that the cancer was in the advanced stage and he was waiting to die, which explained the reasons for the above two points, and also clearly expressed the current situation of the male protagonist.
Here is something that the audience is looking forward to. As the male protagonist, he has no desire or extravagance in life. How will the subsequent story unfold? For an idol drama, there must be a reversal. If this tragedy continues
Why do you call it an idol drama? This is something that can be expected and is enough to give the audience a sense of expectation from the beginning.
If it were a normal idol drama, the inner monologue just now would be enough. The situation of the male protagonist is basically clear, and an anchor plot can be thrown out as a fuse to start the main story.
But "Star You" is not a normal idol drama. The male protagonist Jock has to travel through time and enter the "game world" through a virtual helmet to start the main plot.
So, why does such a "waste" male protagonist have an expensive virtual helmet? And why does the male protagonist travel through time? There needs to be a logical explanation here.
"The scorer's call!"
If this explanation were all explained by the male protagonist's inner monologue, it would appear dull, lengthy and lack some credibility, and there would be no drama to enhance the viewing experience.
Under Liu Yi's arrangement, the male protagonist's neighbor completes this purpose.
Lens:
With a shot from behind, Chu Xuan walked into the corridor holding two large boxes.
A few meters in front of Chu Xuan, there were four aunts acting as neighbors walking together, chatting and gossiping.
"I heard that the young man who just moved here has terminal cancer. Have you heard about it?"
"Ah? No, what a handsome young man. How could this happen?"
"It's fate that causes people to suffer. I heard that even after spending millions of dollars, they still haven't been able to cure it."
"It's going to cost so much?"
"Well, how can other hospitals make money without spending so much money? How can those pharmaceutical companies get a lot of money to research new drugs? You, you need to expand the structure to be more transparent."
Several aunts were gossiping very seriously, which made the drama stand out, and the irony of the ironic lines also initially showed that "Star You" has a style and style that reflects the current situation of society.
Chu Xuan walked forward and had another inner monologue.
[These aunts are my neighbors. In addition to playing mahjong, they usually chat about gossip. People are like this. They always like to spread the news when they know something new to show their short-term sense of superiority. 】
"Why did he move to a shantytown when he was so rich?"
"I heard that my house was sold for medical treatment and I spent all the money before moving here."
"Then his family used to be well off, otherwise he wouldn't have millions to treat diseases."
"Don't mention it, you still don't know, but his parents are scientists."
This explains the factor of the male protagonist moving, and explains that the male protagonist's behavior of picking up the express delivery downstairs is to pick up the moving objects after being discharged from the hospital. One after the other, they form the first logical closed loop of the beginning of the story.
This also brings out the male protagonist’s family background, forming a second logical closed loop for the subsequent male protagonist’s possession of an expensive virtual helmet.
"Ah, scientist, why do you let your children live here if you are so powerful?"
"His parents are researching virtual game equipment. You know how much money virtual equipment can make. His parents got into an accident because of this. It seems that they refused to accept the invitation from a foreign company. Then something happened and they both died in a car accident."
"Oh my god, it's really fake!"
"The landlord told me that this matter was very popular back then, and this young man was also interviewed on the news."
"On the news? Then I'll go back and check it out tonight."
"I checked earlier, and there was no topic at all. It must have been suppressed by that foreign company."
“Can foreign companies still interfere in our country’s news affairs?”
"Hey, as long as you give me money, what can't be done?"
"Tsk, in this news now, you are allowed to see what is released. You will never see the truth that you are not allowed to see."
Here are two more ironies, which increase the degree to which "Star You" reflects the current social situation.
At the same time, the identity of the male protagonist’s parents is explained here, and there is a logical hint to the male protagonist’s use of a virtual helmet to travel through time.
The male protagonist’s parents are researching virtual helmets. Have they developed a virtual helmet that can travel through time?
This issue will not be discussed in the entire drama. Science fiction cannot be explained correctly with existing scientific knowledge. Therefore, this cannot achieve a logical closed loop with the male protagonist's time travel, but it can give the audience a logical hint and allow the audience to imagine on their own.
, it is more appropriate to forcefully explain time travel than in the play.
In the camera, Chu Xuan has already arrived behind the three aunts.
"Please give way."
The four aunts were startled, and then shivered as if they had seen a ghost. They were talking about this young man without any explanation, but they didn't know that this man would appear without anyone noticing. They were very worried.
Awkwardly, get out of the way.
However, with a "cough", Chu Xuan burst into laughter.
"We... made a mistake?" an aunt said sarcastically.
"No, no, the aunts did a good job. It's my fault. Let's do it again." Chu Xuan said.
These four aunts are really good at acting. Their chatting and gossiping looks very life-like. It doesn't look like they are acting at all. In order to reflect the slightly exaggerated style of light comedy, seeing them is like seeing a ghost.
His eyes and trembling micro-expression were so lifelike that they were so magical that he couldn't hold back for a moment.
This scene was filmed five times. While ensuring the best presentation, Chu Xuan and the four aunts continued to act.
The four aunts gave way awkwardly, and Chu Xuan walked forward holding two large cardboard boxes.
The camera followed Chu Xuan forward, and the four aunts appeared and disappeared from the screen.
"Hey, what a poor child."
"Yes, we have the same problem as Little Bao'er, but at least Little Bao'er still has a father."
"No more talk, let's have fun playing mahjong."
The character Wu Xiaobao is introduced here, which pave the way for her subsequent appearance.
At the same time, a slight sense of comedy breaks the gloomy atmosphere brought about by the tragic beginning of the male protagonist, paving the way for the light comedy tone of the entire drama.
This is the role of extras. The contribution of a group of unknown people to film and television dramas can often be such a finishing touch. This is the deepest feeling of Chu Xuan, the new director, and Liu Yifei in front of the monitor about this scene.
Chu Xuan in the camera is always in a state of decadence and silence, until he arrives at the door of the room in the back shot and wants to switch to a close-up shot, and the scene ends.
"Click."
"Pass."
Liu Yifei put down the walkie-talkie, saw Chu Xuan running over and asked: "How is it?"
"I think this time is better." Liu Yifei said.
Chu Xuan played back the monitor screen and adjusted it to the screen of picking up the express delivery and watched them together continuously.
After reading it three times, he took a sip of mineral water, nodded and said, "That's it."
The protagonist's opening is very important, as it determines the audience's first impression of the character, understanding of the character, feelings about the environment, and the psychological setting of the painting style. There is an opening with a high degree of adaptability between the character, environment, and scene, allowing the audience to
Only when you understand the characters can you have the comfort and desire to continue watching.
With his nod from the director, the opening scene of the male protagonist Jock has come to a successful conclusion.
But this is just the beginning, there are more scenes waiting for him to direct and act.
