"Hurry up, there's no time!" My cousin Wu Chenggang hurried outside with his briefcase in hand.
Kang Jianhua slowly drank half the bowl of porridge before following him. His cousin Wu Ruiqing shouted from behind: "Cousin, where is the "Looking for Qin" you wrote last night?"
"On the cabinet next to the sofa." Kang Jianfei's voice came from the corridor.
Shek Kip Mei is not far from Broadcasting Road, and the straight-line distance is only about two kilometers.
What left Kang Jianfei speechless was that after his cousin came downstairs, he actually brought out a bicycle, patted the back of the bicycle and said very arrogantly: "Get in the car!"
Kang Jianfei got on the bicycle very helplessly, and soon he arrived downstairs at the TVB TV station. After his cousin Wu Chenggang pushed his bicycle and stored it, he took Kang Jianfei on the TVB bus and headed to the Clear Water Bay studio of Shaw Brothers.
Kang Jianfei and Kang Jianfei arrived early and found a good seat by the window and sat down. More people got on the bus one after another, and it didn't take long for the bus to be full.
"Borrowed it, borrowed it..." A young man rushed up, pushed aside the crowd and leaned in. Seeing that there were no seats behind him, he stood next to Kang Jianfei's seat.
Kang Jianfei looked up and said, hey, who is this guy if he isn't Tang Zhenye?
"Hello, my name is Kang Jianfei." Kang Jianfei extended his hand in a very friendly manner. Having climbed up from the bottom, he would not let go of any opportunity to accumulate connections. In his eyes, everyone has something, whether he is a high-ranking official or a beggar.
My own value is only a question of whether I can use it.
As soon as Tang Zhenye stood still, he saw Kang Jianfei greeting him. He didn't understand what was going on, so he subconsciously shook hands with Kang Jianfei and said, "Hello, my name is Tang Zhenye, and I just graduated from the wireless training class. You are also from the wireless station.
Actor? We seem to have met somewhere before."
I’ve never seen a ghost before!
Kang Jianfei ignored his polite words and said with a smile: "Everyone who can enter the training class is very good. Students who come from a professional training class have much better acting skills than ordinary people."
Tang Zhenye was only 20 years old at this time, and he was still very green. He dropped out of school to work because his family was poor. He finally got admitted to the wireless training class last year. Now he has just graduated from the training class and has only played a few supporting roles. Kang Jianfei's compliments made him happy.
Tang Zhenye was very impressed, but he kept saying modestly: "No matter what, I haven't played any important roles."
Kang Jianfei said old-fashionedly: "I think you have a very good appearance. As long as you seize the opportunity, you will definitely become popular."
Tang Zhenye, a stupid young man, was very happy. He had a good impression of Kang Jianfei. Coupled with Kang Jianfei's experienced tone, he felt that Kang Jianfei was very capable.
The two chatted quickly, with Kang Jianfei taking charge of the topic. Before the bus arrived at Clear Water Bay, Tang Zhenye's eighteenth generation ancestors took the initiative to speak out and told Kang Jianfei a lot about TVB.
Apart from his name, Tang Zhenye knew nothing about Kang Jianfei.
Finally arriving at the Qingshuiwan studio, everyone crowded out of the car. Tang Zhenye smiled and waved goodbye to Kang Jianfei: "Fei, let's have tea together another day!"
"Aye's treat, I will definitely be there." Kang Jianfei also waved his hand.
At this time, the Clear Water Bay Studio was not yet the TV City it later became. Its main function was for Shaw Brothers to shoot movies. The entire studio consisted of an administrative building, a cinema, a post-production center, an exhibition hall and five video studios. There were no staff dormitories.
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Wu Chenggang took Kang Jianfei to the Second Video Studio, where the bald Mr. Ding was playing with two horses.
Seeing the two people coming, Li Jiading said to Wu Chenggang: "Ah Cheng, you can go about your business. I will discipline this kid well."
Wu Chenggang patted Kang Jianfei on the back and smiled at Li Jiading: "Then I'll leave it to Ading."
After Wu Cheng finished speaking, he went to play with the lighting equipment. Li Jiading waved to Kang Jianfei and said, "Go and bring the action props over and put them behind the set table over there."
"Okay, Master Ding." After Kang Jianfei said that, he went to move the props honestly.
Kang Jianfei knew that this was Li Jiading testing himself. If he cheated and cheated at this time, he would never consider becoming Li Jiading's disciple again. However, Kang Jianfei never really thought about becoming his disciple. He was neither lazy nor diligent when handling the props, so he could just muddle along anyway.
This appearance made Li Jiading, who was secretly paying attention to him, quite dissatisfied.
Kang Jianfei didn't care about Li Jiading's ideas. He came to the Clear Water Bay studio to see if he could meet some people in the industry. After all, if he wanted to make a movie, he would have to form a crew, and he couldn't make it alone.
Movie.
Before that, I could only write novels honestly and wait until I became famous before talking about other things.
Some people may say that Kang Jianfei can just write a good script and give it to a film company or TV station, and he can sell it for money and become famous.
In fact, it’s not that simple. In later generations, a music company received countless song demos every day, and most of them were thrown directly into the trash can without anyone even taking a look. The same is true for scripts. Film and television companies will dump a large number of scripts every year.
Dispose of them, there are many good works of high quality.
The decision to start filming a movie depends on many reasons, of which a good script only accounts for a small proportion.
Even if you send the script of "Titanic" to a Hollywood film company now, there is a 90% chance that the script will end up in the trash.
Especially in today's Hong Kong, all movies and TV series are made based on box office and ratings. Before the work is produced, no one can tell whether it will make money by just looking at the script.
In order to ensure sales, Hong Kong film and television workers now basically have three choices:
First, adapt the works of famous novelists, such as novels by Jin Yong and Gu Long;
Second, the director and producer provide the concept and framework, and then find the screenwriter to customize the script;
Third, pay a famous screenwriter to write the script.
It is almost impossible for ordinary people to make money directly by selling scripts. You have to wait until you become famous first. Or you have to be appreciated by the producer or director, and then you can show your scripts to them.
Even if the scripts written by Kang Jianfei are favored, given his current lack of fame, the scripts will be sold at ridiculously low prices, and the money he can earn from writing scripts is not as good as writing novels.
Another point is that in Hong Kong movies at this time, especially kung fu movies, many directors didn't even have written scripts, let alone scripts. They often had some ideas in their heads, and then relied on words and face to get the funds.
We invited the assistant director, Wu Zhi, photographer and artist to discuss it for a long time, and immediately decided to kill the pig's head and worship God to start filming.
Like the "Once Upon a Time" series more than ten years later, many classic fighting scenes were created in this way. There were no separate shot scripts for these action scenes in advance. The actors and actresses waited until they arrived at the shooting site to design the actions based on the on-site environment and experience.
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Kang Jianfei had just finished moving a bunch of swords, and Tang Zhenye, dressed in ancient costume, came over and said in surprise: "Hey, Fei, you are here too!"
"Yeah," Kang Jianfei patted the dust on his hands and said with a smile, "Not bad, I have a movie coming early in the morning."
Tang Zhenye took a sword from the pile of props, smiled a little reluctantly and said, "I'm just playing an Emei disciple with no lines."
While the two were talking, several more people came over, but they were Zheng Shaoqiu, Zhao Yazhi and Wang Mingquan in ancient costumes.
Needless to say about the handsome Qiu Guan, both Zhao Yazhi and Wang Mingquan are dressed in chivalrous attire, with a unique charm that is different from modern beauties. They look forward to their appearance with every frown and smile. Especially Wang Mingquan, Kang Jianfei did not expect that she was so beautiful when she was young.
In this way, both appearance and temperament are on par with Zhao Yazhi.
Tang Zhenye just entered the crew today. When he first saw two beauties, Zhao Yazhi and Wang Mingquan, he stood there in a daze.
Kang Jianfei smiled and asked, "What props do you want?"
Zheng Shaoqiu yawned sleepily and said: "Sword."
Zhao Yazhi pointed three fingers and said: "Three swords."
Kang Jianfei found three prop swords in good condition and said to Chu Liuxiang: "Master Chu, take the sword!"
What we are filming right now is Zheng Shaoqiu and Zhao Yazhi's version of "Chu Liuxiang". This drama was launched on the wireless station half a month ago, and it attracted thousands of people as soon as it aired. Because the ratings were so good, the station is now preparing to revise the script and add more
What about the drama?
At this time, most of TVB's TV series were being filmed and broadcast at the same time. Due to the temporary decision to increase the number of episodes, Zheng Shaoqiu, as the lead actor, was under great pressure. He had been filming intensively for nearly a month and could only sleep an average of 4 hours a day.
Zheng Shaoqiu was in a daze due to lack of sleep. When he heard Kang Jianfei calling him Hero Chu, he woke up like a conditioned reflex and subconsciously reached out to catch the sword.
Kang Jianfei's funny moves left an impression on Zheng Shaoqiu, Zhao Yazhi and Wang Mingquan. The two beauties even smiled at Kang Jianfei. But it only left a superficial impression. Maybe they would forget about it when they turned around. After all,
He is a popular film and television star, but Kang Jianfei is just a low-level grassroots who has just smuggled over from the mainland.
After the three of them left, Tang Zhenye patted Kang Jianfei's arm excitedly and said, "A Fei, Sister Zhi and Sister Quan seemed to have paid special attention to me just now, and they even smiled at me when they left!"
Kang Jianfei said half-jokingly: "Do you like it? If you like it, go chase them. I support you."
"I am a big star, how can I be favored?" Tang Zhenye looked at the backs of the two beauties and said in a low mood, "I don't know how many men in Hong Kong want to chase them, but we can't get it, let alone Sister Zhi.
already married."
The two men wearing silk clothes were chatting about the goddess, but when they saw Li Jiading throw over a set of ancient costumes, they yelled and cursed: "A Fei, are you here to chat? You actually asked Qiuguan and the others to come and get the props themselves, you won't take the initiative to send them over.
?Hurry and put on my makeup and costume!" After that, Li Jiading said to Tang Zhenye, "And you, stand over there later, and wait for Chu Liuxiang to stab you with the sword, and you will do this..."
Kang Jianfei hurriedly ran to put on his costume, and then asked the makeup artist to put on a hair cap for him. The glue was so sticky that the skin on his temples was almost torn off.
After Kang Jianfei finished changing his clothes and the set of the studio was set up, a fat man sitting on a wicker chair struggled to move his buttocks, holding a guide tube and shouted: "Everyone is in position, ready to open the mic!"
Kang Jianfei will only have a role in the next scene. At this time, he is standing aside and watching Wang Tianlin direct the play, and he can't help but make various comments on the crew:
The action scenes are too bad and belong to the style of martial arts movies in the 1960s. They will be completely eliminated within ten years.
The lighting effect is also not good. A few decades later, a medium-invested TV series produced in mainland China will only have two trucks of lighting equipment, and the four lights in front of me are quite shabby.
And the photographer, how did you arrange the camera position? This lens is obviously better at a low camera position, so why are you just standing there doing nothing...
Well, the above belongs to Kang Jianfei's inner thoughts, and he will not be stupid enough to say it out loud.
Even if he said it, Wang Tianlin, the director and producer of Big Fatty, would not correct it. Because this is a TV series that is being shot and broadcast at the same time, there is not much time to carefully consider the shot composition, light and shadow effects. And from a financial perspective, the budget for such a shooting will be
greatly increase.
Shaw Brothers Pictures and TVB, whether they are making movies or TV series, have the same principle, that is - more, faster, better and cheaper!
After filming a scene, Li Jiading shouted to Kang Jianfei: "A Fei, come here!"
After Kang Jianfei ran over, Li Jiading gave instructions: "You rush towards Chu Liuxiang with a knife, make a very fierce look, and then wait for him to stab him with the sword, and immediately fall to the ground and die. After you died, you didn't hear the director shouting"
You are not allowed to get up and continue to act like a dead body on the ground, remember?"
"Remember." Kang Jianfei never expected that his film and television career would start by pretending to be a corpse.
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