Of course, famous directors like Li Yi are very busy, and it is impossible to watch every one of the more than 300 movies.
Instead, the people in charge of other secondary units will screen them, and in the end there will probably only be 20 to 30 relatively reliable movies left.
The Xichuan Youth Film Festival opens on December 12th.
However, the screening of participating films and the secondary creation of films in the secondary creation unit all take time.
Therefore, it is only the end of October, and the final screening has officially begun.
Of course, Li Yi and the others do not need to go to Xichuan. The film festival will send the works that have passed the screening to Li Yi and the others, allowing them to choose from them the works that they think can be re-created and turn decay into magic.
You can contact the original author and guide him in the secondary creation of the film.
To be honest, even after the storm, these movies, well, it can even be said that many of them still cannot be called movies, they are really experimental works.
Of course, this is also the purpose of the Xichuan Youth Film Festival. The original intention of the Xichuan Youth Film Festival itself is to encourage young directors to create, and a large part of these directors are not directors with real academic background. Most of them are half-way bidders, and many even
It can be said that it is the kind that generates electricity for love.
Many young directors, unlike Li Yi, have the funds and connections to invite so many professional actors to join them in their first film.
Many of the entries, the shots they took were very unpretentious, literally.
Often, he is the director, guest lighting engineer, photographer, props artist, editor, etc.
So the quality can be imagined.
The first thing Li Yi read was the scripts of these selected films from the secondary creative unit.
Then when you look at the works, you will find that many scripts are about the same story, and when it is filmed, you can't even tell it has anything to do with the script.
Of course, there are also some good works, and most of the authors of these relatively good works are second-generation children with good backgrounds, or directors who have graduated from majors.
Therefore, it can be said that the threshold for directors is really much higher than that for actors.
Take a look at the works selected by this second creative unit. Except for a very small number of directors who really have no foundation, almost all the others are more or less second-generation directors, second-generation stars, or graduates of majors.
, or they are engaged in work related to the film and television industry, such as a photographer switching careers to become a director.
And their works are generally much better than those of real amateur directors.
Suddenly, a work called "Dumb" made Li Yi feel inexplicably familiar.
This is a movie adapted from a true story. The story tells the story of a mentally retarded orphan named Dumb.
The story is actually a pretty good one, and what’s interesting is that the lead actor in this movie, the character of Dumb, is actually played by the original character!
Yes, it stars the prototype character, the mentally retarded orphan Dumb.
The other actors in it were not professional actors, but what surprised Li Yi was that their performances were all pretty good.
And this movie coincidentally coincides with a movie in Li Yi's memory.
Li Yi took a look and found that director Wang Bai's original occupation was actually a reporter.
The story of this movie was unearthed by him when he was a reporter.
Li Yi compared the movie in his memory with this "Dumb".
There is still a big gap between the two movies. Although in my memory, that movie is not a theater movie, but just a TV movie, but the story line is very clear. Unlike this movie shot by Wang Bai, for now
Call it a movie, the story line is not clear, and there are a lot of useless shots and plots. The whole movie seems to be more than 130 minutes long, but there are a lot of redundant and useless shots.
But after all, he is a reporter who turned director, and being able to make such a film is actually pretty good.
Li Yi touched his nose and immediately ordered the movie without any hesitation.
He re-revised the script. Of course, there were some differences between the movie and the story in Li Yi's memory, but the overall theme and direction of the story were almost the same.
There is not even a need for reshoots, because the material for this "Dumb" is sufficient, but the editing and color grading are very amateurish.
It is also conceivable that Li Yi took a look at the list of creative staff of this movie. Although it is not that this reporter named Wang Bai holds multiple positions, it is obvious that none of them are real professionals.
If you want to operate on this movie, it is relatively simple. You only need to re-edit, color correct, etc., delete and add some content according to Li Yi's revised story script, and you can make this movie "Dumb"
》becomes a truly relatively complete movie.
Li Yi also breathed a sigh of relief.
If he were really asked to direct some unfinished movies out of thin air, that's not to say that he couldn't do it, but it would take a lot of time and energy.
Moreover, the results may not be satisfactory.
Wang Bai is not a new director without foundation. At least compared to some other new directors, Wang Bai received a lot of support for the filming of "Dumb".
It's just a pity that after all, he is just a halfway decent director, so after he finished filming "Dumb", he tried many contacts and showed it to some industry professionals, but without exception, there was no result.
Not to mention it's a theatrical release, if there are no accidents, the most likely eventuality for this "Dumb" is that he will release it on his personal self-media platform, but how many people will watch it?
This time at the Xichuan Youth Film Festival, "Dumb" was able to pass two rounds of screening and be shortlisted for the final secondary creation unit, which also cost a lot of connections.
Don't talk about fairness and justice. Where can there be so much fairness and justice in this world?
However, even so, Wang Bai still did not have high expectations.
He has some foundation, but compared to those who were shortlisted for the final film in the same secondary creative unit, he really has no comparison.
Because among the films shortlisted for the secondary creative unit, most of them are either directors who have graduated from a major, or are second-generation children in the film and television industry, or they have been engaged in other positions in the industry, such as photographers, assistants, etc.
Director, etc.
It can be said that when it comes to connections, he is simply not good enough.
But what he didn't expect was that his debut film would be spotted by the famous director Li Yi.
When he received the notification, Wang Bai was completely confused. He immediately wondered if he was daydreaming.
Because this is incredible.
Although he didn't know what the films were shortlisted at the same time, those people could at least be said to be semi-professionals. How could he, a reporter, compare with them?
