Had a dinner with the crew at the villa studio restaurant and called it a day.
It was a rare day without a late show. The teachers were in a good mood and decided to go for a walk on the streets of Shenzhen together.
Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, Zhou Jielun, and Fang Wenshan had something to discuss, so they did not go to play with the teachers. They asked the set staff to stay on the set to deal with the aftermath, and then returned to the hotel in the nanny car with Liu Xiaoli.
"When will the rest of my scenes be?" Liu Xiaoli asked as the nanny van parked in the hotel's underground parking lot and got out of the car.
Chu Xuan got out of the car and looked at his mother, jokingly saying: "Mom, are you addicted to filming? You actually asked me proactively. This is different from the disgust you had before."
Liu Xiaoli smiled and lifted the satchel on her right shoulder: "A little bit, I suddenly felt that filming is quite fun."
Zhou Jielun, who got off the car behind him, raised his lips. Filming is fun, but this word is difficult to apply to new actors. Aunt Liu made a lot of low-level mistakes today and had to change her lines. It would be better if she
If others say less, they will be scolded a few times.
That is to say, Aunt Liu is the queen mother of the crew and is a very good person. No one on the crew will speak against her, but they must actively and enthusiastically comply with her. This is of course very interesting.
"Mom, the sponsorship period for the scene where your next movie is going to be is scheduled for ten and a half days. I'll let you know when the filming starts." Liu Yifei smoothed her hair and walked to the elevator with a group of people.
"Is it still that long?" Liu Xiaoli looked a little regretful.
Today's filming really brought her a lot of freshness, which made her somewhat addicted to acting.
In the drama, when a daughter and son-in-law fall in love, the mother and the mother-in-law have to fight against each other, but also slowly compromise until they send blessings. They have to argue with their daughter and argue with the son-in-law. This is not true in reality.
It's fun to think about the situation that I had to film in a movie, and to do it with my own daughter and son-in-law.
Unfortunately, we have to wait for a while.
Taking the elevator to the room floor, Liu Xiaoli stepped out of the elevator and invited her: "Jielun, Teacher Fang, can I listen to what you are discussing? If you don't want to disturb you, come to my room and eat some iced fruit? It's nice to eat iced food occasionally in this weather."
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"Is there any iced fruit again? Auntie, you are really impatient, so I won't be polite." Zhou Jielun said with a smile.
These days, he has felt Aunt Liu's enthusiasm on the set. Perhaps the "Star You" set is the territory of his daughter and son-in-law. Aunt Liu's enthusiastic attitude towards the crew is even better than what he heard from hearsay. From time to time, she buys some iced drinks at her own expense.
Food, small fans or some medicine to prevent illness are given to the crew.
When he shared his life on the set with his mother Ye Huimei, his mother was looking forward to it and asked him to invite Aunt Liu to Baodao's home. His mother really wanted to make Aunt Liu, a very friendly friend of the same generation, but this was
It depends on whether this house is available.
Although the crew arranges meals every day, because of Aunt Liu's concern for Lao Chu and Sissi, she always cooks vegetables and makes some fruit snacks and arranges these private goods for them. As a producer, he has no contact with the couple.
Nature has also become a beneficiary.
He is now very familiar with Aunt Liu, and they go there to eat and drink every now and then. Aunt Liu's iced fruit is not simple, it also contains milkshakes, curry and other exclusive recipes, and they will eat it up every time. Listen
Aunt Liu made iced fruit again, and he was so greedy that he accepted the offer without ceremony.
Fang Wenshan saw that Zhou Jielun was so rude, so he followed the family to Liu Xiaoli's suite without saying anything.
Zhou Jielun went to his room to get his laptop on the way, sat on the sofa with everyone and ate fruits and delicacies while opening the music production software and pressing Enter to play a song.
"What kind of song is this? The treble is so high, does it sound Russian?" Liu Xiaoli picked up a piece of watermelon with a toothpick and ate it. She listened to the music played by the computer and saw that it was a foreign song with a super high treble. She couldn't help asking curiously.
"Yes, Russian, do you know Vitas, the treble prince of global pop music, this song is his masterpiece, translated as "Stars"." Liu Yifei took a toothpick and inserted a piece of dragon fruit.
Liu Xiaoli nodded. She had heard the name but was not familiar with it. She was more curious about the intention of playing this song: "Are you going to use this song in the drama?"
There was a director, a chief producer, a music producer, a lyricist and an artistic coordinator. They had something to discuss, and they brought such a song. She made some guesses for a moment.
"Yes." Zhou Jielun nodded, ate a piece of cantaloupe, and chewed: "The songs on this album I collaborated with have limited genres. There are two situations where the music doesn't have a good musical fit, so I found this one and another one.
Song to suit."
"Star You" has two plots. One plot is about Song Huiru, played by Yang Mi, and Yang Feifei, played by Gu Lina, stepping out from the shadow of unspoken rules and showing a picture of moving from darkness to light. Here we need a song
Inspirational music enhances emotions.
One plot is the two-way running between the male and female protagonists in the ending. After the male protagonist knows that the "virtual world" is the "real world", he wakes up from the breakup state, gives up everything in reality and travels to the female protagonist's world, and reunites with the female protagonist who is waiting for him.
Strong emotional music is needed here to render the biggest emotional climax of the whole play.
But whether it is inspirational or strong emotional music needs, there is no such genre in his "Capricorn" album, so he, the music producer responsible for this area, found two songs to fill these two gaps.
One song is "Stars" by Vitas, which serves as a musical plot point for the happy ending of the male and female protagonists to burst out strong emotions.
One song is "Invisible Wings" by Zhang Shaohan, which serves as an inspirational musical plot point for the two female partners to come out of the shadows.
"Is it appropriate to put a foreign song in this drama?" Liu Xiaoli probably understood what was going on, but when a foreign song was placed among all Chinese songs from Zhou Jielun's album, she judged based on her own knowledge.
It seems a little inappropriate.
"That's why we need to adapt it." Zhou Jielun said: "The crew just won the recording and adaptation rights of this song. We need to adapt it into a Chinese song and re-arrange it."
Liu Xiaoli understood it completely and nodded: "Although I don't understand what the lyrics are about, the melody is very artistic, ethereal and elegant."
"This song is really nice." Liu Yifei ate dragon fruit and listened to the song, and she admired the song "Stars" very much.
As the lingering sound of the dolphin sound ended, the music played on the computer ended.
After listening to it once, Zhou Jielun and Fang Wenshan had some sense of music. Zhou Jielun looked at Chu Xuan with expectant eyes and took out his hands: "Come on, Director Chu, let's take a look at your lyrics."
Chu Xuan held a toothpick in one hand to eat the fruit, and took out the USB flash drive from his pocket with the other hand and handed it to Zhou Jielun.
Liu Xiaoli was surprised, glanced at her son-in-law, and said in surprise: "You can also write lyrics?"
Chu Xuan ate apple slices in his mouth and said vaguely: "Although I don't know anything about music, it has nothing to do with writing lyrics. Anyone who has attended elementary school can write one or two sentences. I, a college student, can write a few sentences."
Are the lyrics surprising?"
Zhou Jielun inserted the USB disk into the interface, operated the computer and said: "Unexpectedly, our teacher Fang only graduated from a vocational high school. You, a college student, are a bit over the top."
Liu Xiaoli and Liu Yifei laughed and looked at Fang Wenshan with interest.
Fang Wenshan shook his head helplessly and ate the fruit without saying anything. He had been working with Zhou Jielun for many years and was already used to being teased by Zhou Jielun.
"What does this mean?" Chu Xuan spoke for Fang Wenshan: "A person who graduated from a vocational high school can write songs such as "East Wind Breaks" and "Blue and White Porcelain". This shows that diplomas cannot represent the level of cultural level. People without high diplomas are better than so-called professors."
There are many people with much higher levels, and Teacher Fang is one of the best representatives."
Fang Wenshan smiled and clasped his fists: "Thank you."
"Oh, that's good." Zhou Jielun opened the USB flash drive document, looked at the content, and said, "Your word is interesting, what do you think of it?"
Liu Xiaoli and Fang Wenshan looked closely at the screen, and were very curious about the lyrics written by Chu Xuan.
Liu Yifei was eating fruit by herself. During the days when she was on her period, Chu Xuan took time with her to figure out the lyrics. She knew what the lyrics were, so she was not as curious as her mother and Teacher Fang.
"My idea is to interpret their love from the perspectives of An Xin and Jiao Ke respectively."
After Chu Xuan finished eating the apple, he put the toothpick in his mouth, bent down next to his mother, looked at the screen and told them his thoughts.
"In the plot of the script, An Xin won the first prize and her career began to go smoothly, but she was unhappy because Jock, who made her happy, was not around, so she went to the rooftop of the teahouse and looked up at the stars at night."
After hearing what Chu Xuan said, they looked at the lyrics.
[Looking up at the sky with hope, the stars are speechless.
Just like me who was once confused, the silence remains unchanged.
Rekindled faith breaks the chains, he is by your side.
When I wanted to catch it, I found that it had disappeared.】
"When you say that, I feel a little bit better." Zhou Jielun crossed his arms and imagined that the heroine was sitting on the rooftop looking up at the stars. This word was paired with the melody of "Stars" to make people feel distressed. The feeling of loneliness has become so...
some meaning.
"Then the camera moves to the male protagonist's side. Jock is preparing to travel through his world. He is sitting on a chair in front of the window and looking at the sky outside the window. He can use a little more panning to add emotion to the music.
time."
Listening to Chu Xuan's words, Zhou Jielun scrolled the mouse to read the next lyrics.
[The wind of the past is like clouds and smoke, making it difficult to recall.
The broken me in this world appears and disappears.
Looking for the light again, she is in front of me.
When you want to give up, just raise your head and ask the sky, without distracting thoughts.】
"It's quite literary and youthful, I like it." Fang Wenshan agreed. Chu Xuan's lyrics tended to be more literary, and some of the angles and ideas of his lyrics were somewhat similar to his.
For example, in the third sentence of the two paragraphs, the first paragraph is "rekindling faith and breaking the lock", and the latter paragraph is "regaining the spark and looking for the light", the reason is "he (she) is around (in front of)".
For example, the first sentence of the first paragraph looks to the sky and is silent, and the last sentence of the second paragraph looks to the sky and asks questions. Here is another very clever echo.
This immediately gives the lyrics a connection, a sense of narrative, and a story atmosphere, instead of being a futile moan, or an empty and boring song with gorgeous words but no content.
Seeing this, Fang Wenshan also understood Chu Xuan's intention. He looked at Chu Xuan and said, "Obviously the first part is An Xin's confession, and the second part is Qiao Ke's confession. You want men and women to sing this song due to each other."
Chu Xuan nodded and expressed his thoughts: "Find two male and female singers who can sing dolphin sounds, one will sing me and the other will sing Sissy. Jielun, please add some dolphin sound arrangements that can perform intertwined singing between men and women.
By filling up the atmosphere, I think the moving emotions of this climax will be exaggerated to the extreme, what do you think?"
"I have an idea." Zhou Jielun put down his folded hands, took a toothpick in his right hand and inserted a piece of dragon fruit to eat.
"Okay." Liu Xiaoli patted Chu Xuan on the back and praised: "I didn't expect that your literary skills can be used in lyrics freely. These words are really good, with neat contrasts and rhymes. Two paragraphs are two stories.
It’s two lives again, like a modern poem, it’s really good.”
"I helped him make suggestions." Liu Yifei muttered beside her, eating watermelon slices as if she was begging for praise.
"Excellent." Liu Xiaoli praised her daughter.
Liu Yifei narrowed her eyes in joy and continued to browse the fruit platter happily.
"Where are the lyrics to the chorus?" Zhou Jielun flipped through the document and didn't see the subsequent lyrics.
"I haven't figured it out yet." Chu Xuan straightened up: "I thought writing lyrics was just like writing literary works. Choosing words and making sentences is a pattern, but when I was writing lyrics a few days ago, I realized that they were two different things."
He sat down on the sofa: "Literary works are about being comfortable to watch, and musical works are about being comfortable to listen to. In my opinion, the latter has higher requirements on words than the former. Anyway, I feel comfortable singing while writing.
Nothing is right, the words have been changed many times."
Zhou Jielun turned his head and looked at Chu Xuan: "Director Chu can do it. He has stepped into the threshold of the world of lyric writing. It is indeed the case. The first criterion is that the lyrics have storytelling, the second is that each line of the lyrics is meaningful, and the third is that the lines are neat and rhymed.
, and the core is that the sound is not obtrusive, which is the feeling you just mentioned."
Fang Wenshan nodded: "When writing lyrics, you have to remember the words word for word. Some words may seem beautiful and extraordinary, but when followed by the melody, it sounds wrong. This is the result of the mismatch between the words, melody and arrangement."
"This result is as small as the wrong word, which will affect the sense of hearing. For example, for the word '的', some people sing 'de', and some sing 'di', just to adapt to the sense of hearing, so every word must be precise.
Carefully carve it out, then put it into words and finally into sentences.”
"Sure enough, every line is not easy." Chu Xuan said with a look of being taught: "Because "Star You" is my own story and Sissi's, we know it best, so I thought about it in the song "Star"
For the Chinese adaptation of the song, we wrote the lyrics ourselves to fill in our own story."
"This is something we have never done before, so we thought about giving it a try, but after all, we are not professional. The overall quality of the wording, and how to plan the paragraphs in the end, I would like to trouble Teacher Fang to give me some advice."
"Don't be polite about small things." Fang Wenshan said, "Write the complete words and show them to me, and we can communicate together."
"Okay." Chu Xuan nodded.
"Thank you, Teacher Fang." Liu Yifei thanked her.
Zhou Jielun put the toothpick in his mouth, looked at the lyrics and said: "Adapt the song "Stars" into a male and female duet. There seems to be no version of the chorus in any country in the world. The main thing is to sing high notes like Vitas."
There are only a few singers of high stature, and there are even fewer who can adapt to the combination of male and female sopranos. You are making my job more difficult."
"You're a musical genius and you still can't handle it?" Liu Yifei joked.
Zhou Jielun saw that Liu Yifei was praising him, he shook his head and said: "If I only arrange the music without considering other factors, then I am confident, but I also need to consider whether the singer's timbre can suit my arrangement, and I will consider more than one
When it comes to singers, it’s a combination of men and women, so that’s very difficult, right?”
"Come on, we can only help you mentally." Chu Xuan poked the fruit with a toothpick.
Zhou Jielun raised his eyebrows: "When I promote my album offline, you guys come and help me run a few stops to support the show, so that I can be more motivated."
Chu Xuan raised his eyebrows and said, "Is there an appearance fee?"
"No, you are a bit hurtful, Director Chu." Zhou Jielun complained.
"Call me when the time comes and I will definitely come. I make the decision." Liu Yifei couldn't help laughing and made the decision on Chu Xuan's behalf.
"Stars" is not a song in Zhou Jielun's album. Zhou Jielun helped with the second creation without mentioning money. She hoped that she and Chu Xuan would appear for free to help promote the album. She felt that this was a favor to a good friend, and secondly, it was considered a favor.
This is a favor.
"Mrs. Chu is still happy." Zhou Jielun and Liu Yifei looked at each other and smiled.
Liu Xiaoli who was standing by looked at the exchanges between these young people and found it quite interesting.
Zhou Jielun switched the screen back to the music software, pressed Enter and then played the song "Stars": "Listening to the vocal range tension of the song again, I first thought about which singers can sustain this song, while ensuring sustainable high-intensity
The treble quality and the tone must be explosive and penetrating. There don’t seem to be many singers like this in the country.”
As he said that, a cell phone rang.
Liu Yifei picked up her cell phone and answered the call. It was the production director Liang Datong.
Zhou Jielun paused the music and saw Liu Yifei frowning: "What do you mean by an unexpected situation?"
Hearing this, Chu Xuan, Liu Xiaoli, Zhou Jielun and Fang Wenshan focused their attention on Liu Yifei. What happened unexpectedly? Did something happen to the crew?