Chapter 119: The Starting Point of Guo Fan's Director's Journey
Chapter 119 The starting point of Guo Fan’s career as a director
Author: Box and Orange
Chapter 119 The starting point of Guo Fan’s career as a director
At a cemetery, Ajie and Ahao met.
Ajie applauded: "I admire you very much."
"Why?" Ahao asked.
"You are finally willing to kill. This is the price of great magic, risk and sacrifice." Ajie's tone was full of sarcasm, and he looked at Ahao, who was walking towards him, limping.
Ah Hao became lame because of Ah Jie.
"If you don't give me what I want, only you will be sacrificed." Ahao and Ajie faced each other and threatened.
"What do you want?"
"Your secret."
"My secret?"
Ah Hao made it clear: "The secret of your transformation, others say it is a spell, but I know it is not.
Your prop master Amo refused to speak, in fact he couldn’t speak at all.”
"You have got my notes, you can read them yourself." Ajie said.
"But without keywords, it cannot be deciphered." Ahao said, taking out a pen and paper from his pocket: "Write down your method, and be more detailed."
In the rain, the two looked at each other for a few seconds, and then Ajie wrote down the keywords.
"I want your techniques, not keywords. Maybe your notes don't record your techniques at all." Ahao said.
"The key word is my technique." Ajie finished writing and asked before handing it to Hao: "Where is my prop master?"
Ah Hao gestured to the earth with a shovel on the side, took his notes and limped away.
"Is he still alive?"
"It depends on how many pieces you can dig."
Ajie quickly dug the soil with a shovel: "Ah Mo, can you hear me? Ah Mo..."
"Okay, not bad, this is over, transition." Zhang Hao shouted through the loudspeaker with great satisfaction.
The crew quickly packed up the props on the set, stopped the water sprinkler truck that simulated rain, and hurried to the next scene.
"Hurry up, hurry up, change the actor's clothes, and give him that blanket." Zhang Hao shouted.
The costume team quickly took off the costumes of Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming, and gave them towels and blankets to wipe their hair and faces that were wet from the rain.
Although it can't be called too cold now, it is already early November after all, and Zhang Hao doesn't want the actors to catch a cold during a scene and delay the filming progress of the crew.
After the cleaning work was left to the set crew, Zhang Hao got into the nanny car and rushed to the next set.
Guo Fan led Team B to Hengdian to shoot some less important scenes and was already on his way back to Shanghai.
After the last scene was shot in the afternoon, Zhang Hao announced the end of the day's work.
Guo Fan also brought back the success of his filming in Hengdian, and worked with Zhang Hao in an editing room at Tangren to review the content he had shot.
"Well, the effect is good, Lao Guo, your level is quite good." Zhang Hao was very satisfied after seeing the completed shots.
Guo Fan said modestly: "I learned this from you, director. Without you giving me these opportunities, how could I have progressed so fast."
"You can't say that. If you are given a chance, you must seize it." Zhang Hao patted Guo Fan on the shoulder and came to the resting area outside the editing room to sit down and chat.
"Lao Guo, you've been doing well at work recently. I think it's time to get some exercise. Have you ever thought about directing a film independently?" Zhang Hao asked Guo Fan's opinion.
Guo Fan's heart moved: "What do you mean?"
"Yes, after this project ends, the studio plans to invest in the production of a medium-cost thriller and horror film. You will be the director and I will produce it for you," Zhang Hao said.
Guo Fan looked happy. When he entered the industry, he wanted to become a real director one day. Now that he has this opportunity, he naturally has to seize it, but...
"Can you tell me what type of project it is?" Guo Fan asked.
"I have already planned the outline of the script." Zhang Hao took out an outline of the script from his briefcase and handed it to Guo Fan: "Take it back and look at it, fill in the details of the script, and make a detailed plan and split shots.
Give me the conceptual design drawings.”
Guo Fan took over the outline of the script as if he had found a treasure, and saw two words written on it: "Shark Beach".
"I have already found the heroine for you. She is a powerful woman. You must seize the opportunity. Remember, this circle, the newcomer circle, cannot tolerate failure. If you fail, it will be too difficult to get another chance."
Although Zhang Hao was younger than Guo Fan, Zhang Hao reminded Guo Fan of his senior's words, but Guo Fan didn't feel anything was wrong.
Guo Fan held the script in his hand tightly and secretly made up his mind to do a good job in this project and not let Zhang Hao down.
On subsequent filming days, Guo Fan was busy with the crew during the day and used his free time at night to perfect the script and design the storyboard manuscript.
In this way, every day's work was accumulated, and the rest time did not even exceed four hours. As time went by, Guo Fan had dark circles under his eyes, and there was no time to repair his chin beard.
If you want to take this first step, you have to pay the necessary price.
Guo Fan was not a director capable of directing super blockbusters from the beginning, he also needed to be trained step by step.
Fortunately, the starting point is good now. If nothing happens, Guo Fan will be able to direct a film for the first time next year. If it succeeds, the road ahead will go quite smoothly.
In mid-November, the filming of "The Magic" ended at the Chedun Film and Television Base, and the two leading actors Xu Qing and Yu Feihong also successfully completed their filming.
After working with Zhang Hao for the second time, the feelings of the two sisters are still very obvious.
Compared with the stumbling blocks when directing "Manslaughter" for the first time, Zhang Hao seemed to be more comfortable directing "The Magic" this time, and the filming went quite smoothly.
The two sisters thought this was Zhang Hao's progress, but Zhang Hao thought it was the team's progress.
A good director requires the cooperation of well-coordinated behind-the-scenes staff, from scene props, to art design, to the artistic style of costumes and makeup, to photography, production, lighting and other departments.
Without a well-coordinated team, even directors like Guo Shi and Spielberg would have to spend a long time integrating the crew.
The filming process went very smoothly due to the tacit team cooperation and the wonderful performance of the actors. "The Magic", which was originally expected to be completed in January next year, is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
However, because there are some visual effects shots in the film, it requires a period of post-processing.
Although the main work was done by Korean special effects companies, Zhang Hao's Tiangong Yicai Studio was also responsible for many parts.
The skills and experience are insufficient, so besides spending money, I just rely on time to polish it.
Due to the excellent performance of previous OPPO commercials, Tiangong Yicai Studio has received many film and television drama projects, which is at least a start.
However, the studio still cannot make ends meet, has no profit returns, and needs Zhang Hao to contribute money.
Since acquiring the studio in July, although the contract states that Zhang Hao will invest no less than 1 million in technology research and development every year.
But in the special effects industry, one million people might not even see a splash.
In the second half of the year, Zhang Hao had spent more than 10 million to enter Tiangong Yicai Studio. If it hadn't been for the quick profit he had made earlier, Zhang Hao might not have been able to hold on.
The head of the studio, Gong Jun, probably didn't expect Zhang Hao to be so willing to spend money. Moved, he took the initiative to lead all the backbones of the studio to work overtime every day to upgrade the software he developed.
Work overtime voluntarily and without pay.
But if the project is completed, there will be a large bonus, so everyone basically has no complaints.
Zhang Hao had never mentioned the grand plan in his mind to anyone, but he was still very happy to see the progress of Tiangong Yicai Studio, an important part of the plan.