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Chapter 495: The Great Directors Teachings

With Wu Di's current status, if he still chooses the arrogant way of doing things in his previous life, he may be banned by the industry before the movie is released.

Of course, even if he was influenced by the original person, Wu Di is now making reasonable use of it combined with his own personality.

In the past, the original person had been hanging out in Hengdian for so long and could only float around, not even getting a serious role. It was precisely because of his personality.

The current Wu Di is different from his original self after all. However, it was not until recently that he sadly discovered that although he still retained many memories from his previous life, his temperament was inevitably affected by his original self.

Many times, I no longer look like myself!

So, what should I say about Wu Di now? He is a combination of two personalities, with a humble and cautious side and an arrogant and confident side.

Wu Di was surprised to find that it was quite good to have a little fun.

The effect of blending the two personalities together is quite good, as it can well neutralize the weaknesses of the two personalities, or in other words, package those weaknesses into acceptable strengths.

Ever since receiving the film "Skin Change", Wu Di naturally began to use this kind of character mixing, and the effect is obvious.

We have won a lot of praise, and what we need to do now is to continue to maintain it.

Maintaining a persona is also an ability that a mature social person should have. It is like a person who is naturally cunning, but can only pretend to be kind. In the end, because the effect is so good, he himself cannot tell who he is.

A cunning person, but also a kind person.

Just pretend, and you will believe it.

"Who says I haven't seen it?"

Wu Di was undergoing active self-psychological construction. He had just set up the framework when he heard Director Huang suddenly say this.

He was immediately stunned: "What did you say?"

"Have you seen my performance?"

No way!

To be honest, Wu Di has never seen the final shooting result of the film Skin Change.

Zhang Feng didn't even show him the rough cut of the film.

How could Director Huang see this?

Obviously, Director Huang had never been to the filming scene at Hengdian. At that time, he had never seen anyone like him.

"What are you lying to?"

Director Huang was driving and listening to the radio, feeling in a good mood.

"do not you know?"

"I've seen the samples of your movie, and of course I've seen your performance."

"Otherwise, why would I invite you to join in the short film shooting? Who do you think I am? I have very high requirements for my work, even if it is a temporary task."

"If I didn't think your play was pretty good, why would I have come to see you?"

Is there such a thing?

Director Huang was a cheerful person who talked a lot. Before Wu Di could ask any questions, he told all the situation at that time.

Only then did Wu Di realize that many of Lao Zhang's acquaintances, famous directors, screenwriters, and producers had all viewed the reskinned samples internally.

Wu Di also finally found out that the director's daughter, Ms. Zhang Feng, did not know about inviting friends in the industry to watch his daughter's new work.

This operation is really too cool.

What kind of temper does Zhang Feng have? How could he publicize her brainchild everywhere without her permission?

"This is impossible!"

"Before the movie is released, the dailies are in the hands of the director. As far as I know, Director Zhang is very confidential in this aspect. How could she hand over the dailies to Lao Zhang?"

"You don't understand this. Although the relationship between the two of them is not good, they are still father and daughter after all. They still hang out in the same circle. There are still many times when a daughter needs help from her father."

Wu Di: Who said the relationship between the two of them is bad?

Don't talk nonsense and harm others, okay?

There was a red light in front of us. Huang Dao, who was driving very happily, could only stop temporarily, but his mouth still didn't stop.

"As for Xiao Zhang, of course she gave the sample to Lao Zhang to read, but at first she just wanted to hear Lao Zhang's opinion, which can be regarded as a demonstration of her achievements."

"You young people are more familiar with this kind of teacher-student relationship. Even if parents and children are at odds, the children sometimes really want to be recognized by their parents."

"So, Xiao Zhang gave the sample to Lao Zhang to watch. However, what she didn't know was that when she wasn't paying attention, Lao Zhang invited us old friends to watch it together."

"What kind of psychology is this?" Wu Di was really hard to understand. At the same time, he felt that the generation gap did exist among people of different age groups.

If Zhang Feng knew about this kind of thing, he would definitely get angry, and it would definitely be the fury of thunder!

"What else could it be for? Just to show off!" Director Huang's tone was very light and airy, as if parents of his generation had this way of thinking.

"Do you think, if Lao Zhang really didn't support Xiao Zhang entering the industry and becoming a director, would she be able to pull off such a big deal?"

"You have to think about it this way. Although this film does not seem to be a particularly big production, before this, Zhang Feng was not well-known in the industry and had no works. Skin Change is her first work. Investment

Where did it come from?”

"Who brought those screenwriters, professional photographers, and lighting engineers to her? Could it be that she did it all by herself?"

Wu Di naturally understands this truth.

"But, isn't that the aura of being a famous director's daughter at work?"

Anyway, Zhang Feng isn't here, so to be honest, it doesn't matter.

Director Zhang laughed loudly: "How is that possible?"

"You, a young man, have really naive ideas. No wonder Lao Zhang likes you."

"Because it is Lao Zhang's daughter who comes out to make movies, her reputation is indeed greater than that of other new directors. However, the film industry is the most practical. There is real money everywhere. If you don't benefit others, you will not create value.

No one has verified your strength, so why should those elders give you face?"

There are differences between the film industry and the TV drama industry. Every day, huge dramas with burning funds are staged here. A film can be released as a finished product, or even be successfully released in the end and grab a very good schedule.

Every step of this can be said to be money and connections paving the way.

In the film industry in 2009, the entire production was still relatively barbaric. For example, some fixed positions, such as photographers, lighting technicians, etc., were packaged and rented to a certain crew to work.

In this kind of packaged group, the situation is usually formed by acquaintances, and it is difficult for outsiders to get in, no matter how capable they are.

Moreover, the relationship between master, apprentice and old friends is also very common in this kind of group. In short, for a film with a relatively large investment, such as Skin Change, even if the composition of the crew is relatively rigorous, it is still operated in a semi-workshop style.

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As a director, what Zhang Feng can control is the cooperation between several small groups. As long as they can cooperate tacitly and produce good results, she has no interest in knowing how these groups are formed, let alone

Not going to manage it.

As long as what is shot meets the director's requirements, there won't be any problems.

However, the problem is obvious. With Lao Zhang's signature, Zhang Feng, as a new director and just starting out, can certainly attract some professionals in the industry to help.

However, this kind of selfless dedication is limited after all, and is simply not enough to support the formation of a relatively large crew.

"So, according to you, Lao Zhang also supports Zhang Feng in making movies?"

"It's just that you don't want to show it on the surface?"

Director Huang nodded: "You kid, you finally realized it."

"Actually, Zhang Feng has long known that Lao Zhang has contributed a lot to the completion of the crew and the official completion of the film. However, you also know that the relationship between the two of them has always been very contradictory, so Lao Zhang

If Zhang doesn’t say it, Xiao Zhang naturally won’t say it either.”

"However, these are some things that everyone knows very well, but no one is willing to admit it."

"This is indeed in line with their two personalities."

"What is persona?" Director Huang obviously had a poor understanding of this new vocabulary.

And Wu Di was not interested in explaining to him.

"So, in order to show off my daughter's talent, Lao Zhang showed the skin-transplanted samples to old friends like you?" This should be the process.

Director Huang also expressed his affirmation.

"So Director Huang, as a well-known director in the industry, what is your evaluation of this movie?"

"I'd like to hear your professional opinion."

In fact, this is a question that shouldn't be raised. Both Xiao Zhang and Lao Zhang gave him face and created many job opportunities for Wu Di.

Wu Di should be grateful, should shut up, and either say nothing or say nice things.

Whether the movie is good or bad, and what its level is, this is not what Wu Di should care about at all.

To take a step back, he is just an actor, and movies, from the day he was born, have been the director's art.

It is the expression of the director's aesthetic level, personal interests, emotions and will, while actors are just the director's tools.

Even for the general public, when many people see the movies they like to watch, the first thing they remember and the deepest impression are often the actors and the big stars.

However, actors still have to obey the director's instructions, and he cannot decide the direction of the movie's story or the presentation of the final product.

Among them, there is a professional term that is worth discussing.

That's what's called editing.

Many viewers naturally know that all film and television dramas, including TV dramas of course, have editors.

Just like in many classic TV dramas, the director also works as an editor. Of course, TV dramas also have the editing process.

Moreover, if the director is responsible for editing himself, the effect will be more guaranteed.

However, due to the limitations of television as a communication medium, there is still not much that can be done in editing of TV series.

After all, no matter how TV dramas are produced, straightforward narratives are still the mainstream, or an absolutely strong mainstream, and the timeline often cannot be changed, or in other words, there can only be one angle for telling the story.

The story must develop according to the established route.

However, movies are different.

After the filming of the film was completed, it was actually fragmented, with a piece here and a piece there.

In the end, it is the director's responsibility to glue these fragmented fragments together to form a work.

Of course, such arduous work will not appear in the skin-changing movie. Obviously, the skin-changing movie has no artistic quality. It just pursues a story and box office!

box office!

Important things must be said three times!

Therefore, the film "Skin Change" is just a straightforward work. There is no disruption of the timeline, changing the narrative perspective, or montage of light and shadow.

It's not that profound, and it's not that complicated.

But this is only for the skin-changing movie, and it does not apply to other movies.

It is very possible that the final plot of the movie may be completely different from what the actors originally filmed.

In fact, some well-known directors always have to guide the actors on the set and take care of almost every detail.

Even for those performances that the actors cannot understand, the director has to go on stage to demonstrate them in person.

This is only at the performance level and does not continue to the editing level. When it comes to editing, how to combine and place the already shot clips, which ones need to be kept and which ones need to be cut, are all decided by the director.

Therefore, many times, you will find that you can also get some clues from some movie-related news reports.

For the same actor, when he appears in a TV series, as many of his scenes are filmed as possible. It is rare that the scenes are cut away.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In other words, the filming scenes of the TV series are almost not much different from the officially broadcast version.

From the plot to the actors, everything is presented according to the prepared plan.

But movies are different.

Even if the actors have finished filming, if the director suddenly thinks that this line is not important or does not fit in with his subsequent presentation ideas, he can cut it out with a single blow.

This is very cruel and decisive.

The most amazing thing is that if a TV drama director does this, no matter how skilled he is, it will most likely cause the TV drama to be incoherent and skip scenes.

However, this does not happen in movies.

Because especially some literary films, they originally follow a vague and unclear route. How to present the same core story depends only on the director's intention.

If the director thinks this section is not important, he can even delete an actor's role completely without affecting the integrity of the film.

The method may be just to turn one ambiguity into another ambiguity.

very easy.

So, look, Xiao Wu, do you want to be cut?

Of course Xiao Wu doesn’t want to!

But by the time he regretted it, it was already too late. This rash remark had already been asked, and Lao Huang must have understood it.

This is...

Very embarrassing.

At that moment, Huang didn't speak at all and looked straight ahead, without even giving Wu Di a look.

Are you deep in thought?

Still angry?

Wu Di gripped the wheelchair tightly and was even prepared to be kicked out of the car in the next second.

Lao Huang kept driving and had no intention of kicking Wu Di off.

"It's not that complicated, you don't have to be nervous."

It seemed that Wu Di's nervousness was very obvious. He didn't speak or express anything, but Huang had already seen it.

"This issue is very complicated and cannot be explained in one or two sentences. In short, both directors and actors have to accept constant tests."

This is of course a truth, but why did Lao Huang look so serious when he said this?

Could it be that Lao Huang also thinks that skin resurfacing cannot withstand the constant test?

That really went with him, Wu Dixiang...

At midnight, a nanny car drove into the villa area and stopped in front of a house. The door opened and there was a bang. The first thing that jumped out was not a person, but a car.

With two wheels!

It can also be called a car!

It's Wu Di's wheelchair.

Soon, the owner of the wheelchair appeared in the field of vision, it was Wu Di himself.

I didn't need to use a wheelchair at first, but after one day of filming, I really had to use a wheelchair. The sprained ankle seemed to be getting more serious.

The pain made Wu Di miserable.

However, his ugly grinning look just met Lao Huang's requirements. Not only did he not complain about Wu Di, let alone criticize him, there was no such thing.

While praising Wu Di, Lao Huang admired his own vision even more. Why is he so smart? Why is Lao Zhang such a good friend?

In a huge crowd, in a short period of time, he found a naturally chosen leading actor like Wu Di!

This is strength!

This is fate!

Of course, Wu Di, who is a complete newcomer, does not have that much respect. Although a nanny car took him home personally, he also bought a wheelchair and gave it to him directly.

However, it is impossible for Director Huang to show up. From today on, the person responsible for picking up Wu Di will only be the temporary driver of the crew.

For Wu Di, this is actually a good thing.

After all, compared to Director Huang, the driver was much stronger, with strong limbs, and it was not difficult at all to lift the heavy wheelchair up and down.

Wu Di had just sat down when he felt that the force pushing the wheelchair behind him had changed a lot.

"Director Zhang!"

"It's so late, why are you out?"

In Wu Di's sight, Zhang Feng appeared behind him at some unknown moment. He also took over the driver's duties and personally pushed Wu Di into the courtyard gate.

This is really...a little bit flattering.

"It's just a casual thing, don't be sentimental."

Who is being so sentimental?

Didn’t you, Zhang Feng, keep saying that you like me and want to fall in love with me? If it weren’t for you, who would think in that direction?

Although Zhang Feng's tone was very bad, he still pushed Wu Di into the room and put him in a position convenient for getting into bed.

After all, mobility is not that convenient for people in wheelchairs.

After everything was done, Zhang Feng had no intention of leaving. Wu Di also felt a little relaxed. Since the two people expressed their feelings, they have become less worried about each other.

In front of Wu Di, Zhang Feng can happily be himself, and as for Wu Di, facing such an ice beauty, it feels good to occasionally see her show tenderness and care because of him.

This is the truth.


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