"You guys chat, let's go and have a look at "Star You"."
After Chu Xuan said something, he stood up and left with Liu Yifei and his cousin.
The crew of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" has a great idea for the cast. Whether they can pull it off depends on Kong Sheng, the director, and Li He, the company chairman. They will not interfere in a subsidiary project unless necessary.
Well, this would seem unnecessary.
And in the preset list of actors, I thought I wanted them to help out in this year's project, so I got some interest. However, it turned out that their presets were postponed to an unknown number of years.
This made them temporarily lose interest.
As for whether Li Zhengyi is willing to act, and what her thoughts are, it is up to the two of them to talk about it. If the couple is present, because the relationship between sister and younger brother is there, it will affect her thinking and judgment to some extent.
So, the couple came to the "Star You" working group, gave Li Zhengyi and Kong Sheng space to talk, and also came to take a look at the post-production situation of "Star You".
"Director Chu, Producer Liu, why are you here today?" Long Fei, the chief photographer of "Star You" and the leader of the post-production team, greeted the couple who came in through the door with the team members.
"Hello teachers, come here to see you." Liu Yifei took a few steps closer and looked at the computer screen with her eyebrows lowered behind the chair: "How's it going? Is everything going well?"
"It went well, there are no problems so far." Long Fei said.
Liu Yifei nodded slightly. "Star You" has been in post-production for almost a month. The post-production team will report the progress in the group every day. So far, they haven't encountered any problems. The post-production is quite smooth.
She looked around and saw that the nine-person editing team was divided into three groups. One group was responsible for editing the sponsored product scenes, one group was responsible for editing the side plots of the supporting characters in the story, and one group was responsible for the main editing of the male and female main scenes.
Looking at the fact that there are five people editing the main storyline of the characters played by him and Chu Xuan, it seems that the current editing work is focused on the editing of the main storyline.
At this point, she asked: "Is it based on the main line?"
"Yeah." Chu Xuan responded. This was the instruction he gave to the editing team at that time.
Liu Yifei nodded. There are generally two methods of film and television editing, either focusing on branch plots or focusing on main plots.
When focusing on the main line, the main male and female scenes must first be spliced together according to the script's story logic or chronological order, and then edited.
For example, a total of 1,000 minutes of plot scenes of the male and female protagonists were filmed. After being spliced together according to the order of the story, some "frames" that are redundant, boring, meaningless, that affect the sense of the characters or the style of the painting are removed.
There are only 800 minutes left in the main overall screen.
Then, in this 800-minute complete main story, secondary editing is carried out based on plot rhythm concepts such as succession, transition, and emotional ups and downs. The professional term is also called transition, and the side plots of the supporting characters are inserted at various required nodes.
For example, at the 100th minute, the heroine An Xin is too suppressed and needs a comic plot to break through the mood. Then the funny plot corresponding to the character Zeng Shuai played by Huang Bo can be inserted to complete the story.
A transition is also an emotional change.
But if the plot of Huang Bo was originally supposed to be inserted at the 100th minute, but the heroine's overly depressed mood seems to have reached its peak at the 95th minute, in this case, it is necessary to cut out another 5 minutes of the previous 100 minutes of plot. The purpose
It is to achieve the best possible story rhythm, and also to achieve the ups and downs rhythm of conveying emotional value.
After she left the team to go to the United States, today was the first time she came to the company to see the post-editing situation. Such a professional working atmosphere with clear division of labor and a smooth process made her feel more at ease.
I stayed with Chu Xuan for half an hour, just to learn and observe. The couple were present. Seeing that these people were uncomfortable, they said hello and left, so as not to disturb the work of the editing members.
The progress will be reported every day, and if there are any problems, they will be dealt with. The normal and smooth editing process does not require their participation.
"Wow, it turns out that film and television editing is like this." My cousin sighed after leaving the house, feeling like she had discovered a new world.
"Then what do you think?" Chu Xuan said.
"I have also played editing, basically cutting from beginning to end." said my cousin.
"The first second it should be the main character scene, then the main character scene should be cut. The second second it should be the supporting role scene, the second second second it should be the supporting character scene, then the supporting character scene is cut. Is that like this?" Liu Yifei said.
"Yes, yes, that's it, it's all done in one go." The cousin nodded.
"There are too many elements in editing like this. Professional editing basically cuts one line first and then inserts another line. No matter how many lines you cut together, if you can still maintain the rhythm and video quality, then you are a top expert.
, otherwise you are a novice." Chu Xuan smiled.
"Okay, I'm a newbie." My cousin stuck out her tongue and shrugged, "No wonder the video I cut out doesn't look good, it doesn't look right. It turns out that's how it is. I've learned it. I'll start with a line.
For the Lord, this trip is not in vain.”
She asked again: "Is it based on emotional value?"
"Yes." Liu Yifei nodded: "It depends on what video you want to edit. If it is a relaxing daily video, then focus on a relaxed mood; if it is a funny video, then focus on a happy mood; if it is a pet video, then focus on it.
Come on, pets.”
The core of a good story is the emotional value conveyed by the characters and plot. Any editing method remains unchanged and serves the purpose of conveying emotions well and effectively delivering the rhythm of the story.
As for whether the story is slow or fast in the audience's mind, whether it is just right or too draggy, this is a matter of the director's personal artistic taste.
The director believes that this rhythm is in line with his concept. If the audience does not agree with it in the end, there is nothing he can do about it. There is no right or wrong in art, but each has a different aesthetic perspective.
When the audience does not approve, some directors insist on themselves and gradually become more artistic directors; some directors are good at accepting the audience's views and gradually become more commercial directors.
And those who can insist on their own things while also being able to accommodate the audience's views are directors who combine art and business. Such directors can win awards and make a lot of money. They are highly sought after by capital and actors, and are also popular among the audience. Favor, a whole fragrant steamed bun.
However, there are not many such directors in the country. The only ones who are well-known and representative are Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang, Tsui Hark, Chen Kaige and Tang Jili.
Chen Kaige is a person who thinks very highly about art. Although he is the only one who understands his artistic thoughts, it does not prevent him from saying that the audience does not understand art.
Tang Jili is a person who attaches great importance to commercial values. He can promote Chenglong to Hollywood and become the light of Chinese movies. His keenness in the commercial market is evident.
Therefore, compared to Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang, directors who pay equal attention to art and business and are very compatible with each other, it does not mean that Chen Kaige and Tang Jili are not as good as them in terms of directorship, it is just that their focus and director's ideas are different.
The topic raised by her cousin made her fantasize about herself and Chu Xuan in the future. She wondered what kind of directors the couple would be? This was an unspecified pursuit, and it was also something worth looking forward to. thing.
"I understand." My cousin said that she had learned it.
The couple wanted to go to the chairman's office to see how Li Congcheng and Kong Sheng were talking. Unexpectedly, when they walked to the door of the company, they met Li Congcheng who came out, and Li Congcheng seemed to be holding a character script in his hand.
Chu Xuan stopped and raised his eyebrows: "Did you take it?"
Li Zhengtong walked closer and shook his head: "Go back and think about it, and then ask Sister Hua and my sister for their opinions. I am conflicted myself."
Due to the good resources provided by the company, she was allowed to go to Hollywood to play the second female lead in "The Twilight Saga". This is definitely a top-notch resource for Chinese actors.
Seeing that her film career is about to take off, she is now asked to act in a TV series, and this drama also involves the company's overall planning and general development direction, which makes her a little entangled.
On the one hand, it is about my own development interests, and on the other hand, it is related to the interests of the company. The most important thing is that my studio is also a community of interests with the company, so I need to go back and study and think about it carefully.
A group of people walked into the elevator, Chu Xuan pressed the button for the first floor, and Liu Yifei said next to Li Congcheng: "Sister Congcheng, I think there is no need to look down on the TV floor in the movie floor."
Li Zhitong was stunned for a moment and shook his head repeatedly: "That's not what I meant."
"That's what you mean." Chu Xuan turned around and said with a smile: "Not to mention that all the dramas in our Brilliant Era are hits, but none of them fail. Whoever stars in our dramas will make money. This is very obvious. , but you are very resistant, what else could it be other than this reason?"
Li Zhengtong couldn't laugh or cry. She admitted that Liu Yifei had revealed her thoughts. Being in the film industry, she really looked down on the TV industry. Just because Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei were also in the TV industry, she tried her best to deny it to avoid being misunderstood.
Seeing that Chu Xuan said it so straightforwardly, she didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Actually, movies focus on the so-called box office appeal. Where does this appeal come from? To put it bluntly, it is popularity and audience popularity. Where is the place where popularity and audience popularity can be maximized? It must be admitted that it has to be a TV series.
." Chu Xuan said.
"That's right." Liu Yifei agreed: "Maybe after the release of "Attack on the Wall", Chu Xuan and I will focus on the film industry, but we have not given up on the idea of TV series."
"Of course, in our thinking, both movies and TV series can carry out industrialized artistic creation, so we have no preference for which one."
"Looking at it from your perspective, Sister Li, no one can guarantee that every movie they act in will be successful, and the cycle from filming to release is so long. If it fails once, it may have serious consequences for your career.
Influence."
"But if there is a good TV series, as a career node interspersed..."
Liu Yifei said playfully: "To use a saying in the game, even if the movie fails, it can still be resurrected with full blood from the TV series."
Chu Xuan, cousin and Li Congcheng all laughed. This description was very down-to-earth and quite interesting.
"It makes sense, I will seriously consider it." Li Chengcheng put his hands on Liu Yifei's shoulders, followed Chu Xuan and his cousin out of the elevator, and walked to the parking space where the car was in the underground parking lot.
She added: "I just don't know if they can get that list of actors together."
Chu Xuan picked up the car key and unlocked it. The vehicle chirped twice as the lights came on.
"It seems impossible, but it's actually not that difficult."
"We, Xia Yu, don't have any pursuits at the moment. We are constantly thinking about when to get married and have a wedding with Sister Yuan Quan. Ever since they reconciled during the New Year, the two of them have been bored all day long. Let Xia Yu play the big gold tooth, and then
Let Yuan Quan also play a role, why don't the two of them join the cast separately and at the same time, they will give you face."
"Teacher Jiang Wu is a classmate of Teacher Huang Lei and Teacher Wang Jinsong. If the company really can't hire him then, then Xixi and I can ask Teacher Huang Lei or Teacher Wang Jinsong to hire him. It shouldn't be a big problem."
"As for Teacher Liu Ye, let Brother Jun go and invite him?"
At first, he was sounding the truth, until the last words came out, Li Zhengtong immediately burst into laughter: "You asked Brother Jun to invite Liu Ye, but your brother Jun can't beat you to death?"
Liu Yifei couldn't help but laugh, but her cousin was the only one who was confused.
Hu Jun and Liu Ye starred in "Lan Yu" and both won Best Actor awards. However, this movie has homosexual attributes, and the two people who were originally good friends have never contacted each other.
It can be said that both sides are each other's nightmare.
And Liu Ye is also a restricted area for Hu Jun. Whenever anyone dares to mention Liu Ye at any gathering, Hu Jun will immediately fall out.
Therefore, there is a consensus in their own circles that Liu Ye cannot be mentioned whenever Hu Jun is around.
Therefore, when they heard Chu Xuan's teasing, Liu Yifei and Li Congchen were also teasing, so Chu Xuan only dared to talk about it behind his back. If he dared to play like this in front of Hu Jun, he would be drunk and drunk if he didn't get beaten up.
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"Let them handle the specific situation first. Sister Lichen, just think about Shirley Yang's role." Chu Xuan got into the driver's seat.
"I'll think about it." Li Zhengtong nodded and got into the back seat with his cousin.
Liu Yifei got into the passenger seat and put on her seat belt: "Go home? Literary company?"
Chu Xuan started the car, turned the steering wheel and reversed out of the warehouse: "It's still early, Sister Li, let's go to the literature company to have fun together?"
"Okay, let's go have some fun with you." Li Congcheng responded.
Chu Xuan drove out of the underground parking lot, got onto the avenue and went straight to the literary company.
The literary company is a bit far away. Unlike the Bright Times Media Corporation, Donglin Bieyuan and Century Culture are all in the big circle of Chang'an West Street, so it doesn't take much time to go around.
The literary company is at the opposite end of their side, and it takes at least more than an hour to drive there.
Normally, unless necessary, Chu Xuan would not want to go anyway. When he was working on the script of "Star You", he was very tired just driving every day.
Just yesterday I heard Liu Yi say that the plan he proposed last year has been implemented and has been built online. This made him and Liu Yifei interested and needed to take a look at what was going on.
In the second half of last year, Liu Yi wanted to acquire the film and television adaptation rights of three popular online novels: "Coiling Dragon", "Tomb of the Gods", and "Douluo Dalu", in the spirit of "the earlier you buy, the cheaper it is" and "the development of the market will lead to
"Copyright fees are rising, so the earlier you buy, the more valuable it will be", I want to buy back the adaptation rights of these novels and put them in storage temporarily.
However, due to the increase in the size of the online drama market in recent years, capital has discovered the profit value in it, so it has proposed a sky-high price.
The total adaptation rights for the three novels are worth nearly 4 million. Even if the novels become more popular, this asking price will still be huge.
The total investment of some low-cost film and television dramas is not that high. If you dare to ask for 4 million for the adaptation rights, is this not treating the glorious era like a sheep?
After analysis at the time, the reason was also found.
Shengda Literature wanted to acquire Qidian, but Qidian proposed a sky-high price. Its purpose was to increase the value of the website and sell it to Shengda at a good price.
Increasing the value of the website also increases the value of the novel adaptation rights.
Raising the value of novel adaptation rights also raises the value of screenwriters and scripts to a certain extent.
Just because the value of the novel adaptation rights is so high, the value of the script is also different from the normal market increase, and the income of the screenwriters who create the script will also increase accordingly. This is the logic.
And this logic, similar to the industrialization of screenwriting by Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei and Liu Yi, aims to increase the value of screenwriting and scripts, and seeks to allow people like Wang Yuan who want to industrialize screenwriting to make profits, so that they can have the confidence to persevere and firmly follow the brilliant era.
The purpose of carrying out industrialization together is the same.
Therefore, under this high-level and long-term plan, Liu Yi became a nouveau riche and bought the rights to adapt these three novels for nearly 4 million, which was widely reported by the Internet literature community at the beginning of the year.
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At the same time, the value of the Qidian website increased. It was originally negotiated for more than 20 million U.S. dollars, but was eventually sold to Shengda Literature by the founder of the website for 30 million U.S. dollars. Qidian has since become the main business of Shengda Literature.
part.
Liu Yi originally hoped to let the company compete with Shengda and buy Qidian back to use as an original novel library, but this idea was rejected by Chu Xuan.
As the industry leader of online literature, Qidian is open to all rivers and requires a lot of energy and capital strength to develop and face competition from its peers.
The Creative Literature of the Brilliant Era is engaged in script creation and film and television creation. The novels it needs are also novels that can be adapted by film and television. A large number of novels that do not meet the threshold of adaptation are not needed. What is needed is only novels that can be adapted by film and television comics.
Single track.
If such a large website is acquired, it will only affect the core development of the company, and a large amount of funds will be used to deal with competition from peers. This will take away the energy and resources originally devoted to the industrialization of screenwriting, which is purely putting the cart before the horse.
After hearing Chu Xuan's analysis and agreeing with it, Liu Yi also believed Chu Xuan's plan and idea to make one himself.
It's very simple to make one. Some network technology jobs have various code templates. After slight modifications, you can create an original website. Then you can customize some functions according to your needs, build a server, etc. It can be completed in just three or four months.
And it’s very cheap, one or two hundred thousand is enough.
Of course, if a website develops and a large amount of data is poured in and saved, the bulk of the money will be spent on server and technical maintenance.
But for newly established websites, you don’t have to worry about these yet.
Once the website is established, it needs to attract traffic.
How to divert traffic? Of course it costs money.
How to spend money? Where to spend it to attract writers?
Under the consideration of Liu Yi, Ye Junzi and other screenwriters, a hyperlink activity called "Brilliant Literature" spread in the novel modules of Weiyu, Tieba, and forums.
Participate in the activity with no restrictions on subject matter or style, but only in the form of novels. The first place will receive 10,000 cash, the second place will receive 6,000 cash... and other attractive rewards, which really attracted a lot of people.
Internet writer.
Liu Yi and the others were very pleased to see so many people coming to participate in the event. As long as there was a surprise that could be made into a film and television, then whether they set up a website or spend money to promote the event, all these expenses would be
You can earn back tens or hundreds of times, and the reputation of the website will also expand as a result.
However, the idea is good, but the reality is often unexpected.
Just look at the level of those writers, just look at the damn stuff they write...
[Han Lei’s hand holding the paternity test results couldn’t stop shaking. She never expected that her husband, who always seemed honest and honest, would actually cuckold her.
The child that I worked so hard to conceive for ten months turned out to be not my own, but the child of my husband and a wild woman who didn’t know where it came from outside...]
"Hahaha..." In the literature company office, Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, Li Zhengyi and their cousin burst into laughter.
Liu Yi, Ye Junzi, Gong Geer, and Yang Dongxu, the four great screenwriters and the four top executives of the company, were all laughing again and again. Even though they had already seen such submissions, they couldn't help but laugh.
What the hell is written here?
The child you gave birth to is not your own, but the child of your husband and another wild woman. What the hell kind of logic is this?
Rebel against Tiangang?
And this is only one of the massive submissions of similar works.
[Three thousand liters of purple energy from the East China Sea turned into strong winds and blew away. The next day, ten beautiful women appeared inexplicably pregnant all over the world. It was really shocking!
What shocked people all over the world was that more than half a year later, the eldest mother gave birth to a baby's head in Africa, the second mother gave birth to a neck in Europe, the third mother gave birth to an upper chest in America, and the fourth mother gave birth to a baby in Australia.
Lower abdomen...]
Seeing this, Liu Yifei couldn't stop laughing. She really couldn't stand it anymore. She put her hands on the desk and trembled all over. She was so happy that she couldn't bear it.
[Suddenly, various body organs flew around and merged together in the sky. The complete baby cried like thunder, and the mighty and domineering Emperor Ye Lin was born!
The ten mothers looked up at the sky, all dumbfounded, and exclaimed: "My son is really so terrifying!"]
"Damn it, talent." Chu Xuan couldn't help but cursed, moved from the desk to the sofa, and sat down happily.
I spent hundreds of thousands to build the website, spent hundreds of thousands to promote it, and spent another hundred thousand to carry out activities, but in the end I bought a lot of happiness.
Is this a profit or a loss?
Chu Xuan didn't know, nor did Liu Yifei and Li Zhengtong, nor did Liu Yi and the other four teachers at this moment.
Anyway, the current situation is that the laughter in the office cannot stop...
