At nine twenty, the first interviewer arrived on time ten minutes early.
"Hello, please sit down."
Li Qian asked him to sit down and looked him over.
He was wearing a plaid shirt, jeans, a crew cut, and glasses. His appearance and dress were ordinary, and he didn't look like a painter.
And the resume is also very strange. He studied law, majored in painting, won international awards, and has been working in a TV station, a music show, and doing packaging planning.
A person who is proficient in multiple unrelated majors is not bad at all.
Of course, this has nothing to do with the execution of this job. If it were just like this, Li Qian would not interview him.
"Mr. Guo worked on the crew directed by Zhang Yimou?"
Li Qian went straight to the topic.
"Yes, I did art work on the crews of "House of Flying Daggers" and "The Golden Armor"."
Guo Fan pushed up his glasses and answered truthfully, while also looking at Li Qian.
To be honest, Guo Fan felt a little regretful from the moment he walked in. The director in front of him seemed to be younger than himself, and he looked a bit unreliable.
However, Guo Fan didn't show it. After failing to apply for the directing department of Beijing Film Academy in 1999, he never gave up his dream of directing. After graduation, he always had the opportunity to do some art work on the crew.
But if you don’t come from a professional background and want to be a director, you can imagine how difficult it is.
After finally finding a crew that wanted to recruit an executive and looking at his resume, Guo Fan didn't want to give up even if it was unreliable.
The most outstanding feature of Zhang Yimou's costume blockbusters is undoubtedly the art and color, from "Hero" to "House of Flying Daggers" to last year's "The Golden Armor".
It can be said that the plots of these movies are not good, but in terms of pictures, few people in China can compare with him.
This is why only Zhang Yimou's costume films can make money overseas, because foreigners can't quite understand the plot, they just watch the big scenes and the camera shots.
Just like "Heroes", what foreigners see is the overwhelming arrow array of the Qin army, the flowing movements, and the shock brought by the uniform "Great Wind" slogan.
But these alone are not enough, otherwise the overseas box office of these three movies would be lower than the last, and foreigners would be tired of it.
Being able to work as an artist on Zhang Yimou's crew goes without saying much about his ability, but Li Qian's job is execution after all.
However, he continued to ask, "Can you tell me why you applied for the executive position? Do you have any similar experience before?"
"I once applied for the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy, but unfortunately my professional performance was a little bit behind. In the past few years, I have been learning directing knowledge by myself, and I have also worked in several film crews. Although I only did art work, I was very important to the entire crew.
I still understand the work”
Guo Fan seems to be relatively low-key and introverted, but he still speaks clearly and coherently.
I almost got admitted to the directing department of the Beijing Film Academy, and I have been studying directing by myself. I have worked on big production crews such as "House of Flying Daggers" and "The Golden Armor", and I am familiar with all the work of the crew.
He uses his strengths and avoids his weaknesses and is very smart. He didn't mention a word about whether he has any work experience.
But this is not enough. The executive director is not the assistant director, otherwise Li Qian would not have been looking for him for so many days.
For example, if the director in the crew is equivalent to the chairman of a company, then the executive director is equivalent to the CEO. The importance is self-evident.
Although "Sniper Phone Booth" only has a small crew of more than ten people, it is also the first time for Li Qian to direct, so he still tried his best to find a reliable executive.
In order to make "Red Cliff" a success, Wu Baige had to ask Zhang Jinzhan to do the execution, otherwise he might not be able to do it.
In this way, Zhang Jinzhan was ostensibly the executive director, but in reality he was no different from the director. He and Wu Baige were in charge of a directing team. Almost all the big scenes were shot by Zhang Jinzhan, and Wu Baige was also appointed as the chief director.
This was also the case for another great director, Chen Kexin, who was making his first costume blockbuster. He invited Zhang Jinzhan to take charge of the large-scale war scene in "The Letter of Contribution".
As a well-known director of big scenes overseas and known as "The General" in Hollywood, Zhang Jinzhan is also the executive director of films such as "Hero", "The City of Golden Armor", and "Farewell My Concubine".
It can be said that in the past ten years, half of the domestic blockbusters are related to Zhang Jinzhan.
Brother Cheng Kai hasn't cooperated with Zhang Jinzhan since "Farewell My Concubine" and "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin", and ended up filming "The Promise".
That's not to say that it won't work without Zhang Guanzhan, it will have some influence. No one can figure out that "The Promise" and "Farewell My Concubine" were made by the same director.
Of course, this kind of big shot has nothing to do with Li Qian. He just wants to find someone who is familiar with all the work of the crew and has some experience.
Guo Fan was obviously not suitable. I originally thought that the crew who had worked with Zhang Yimou could give him some surprises.
Seeing that Li Qian was about to decline, Guo Fan quickly stepped forward and said, "Director Li, can you please take a look at this first?"
As he spoke, he took out a large stack of manuscripts from his bag and handed them to Li Qian.
Guo Fan, who has always dreamed of becoming a director, did not want to give up the opportunity to be an executive director. During this period, he also worked for several major online film crews, but they were all recruiting assistant directors, which was not much different from doing odd jobs, and it was meaningless to him.
Moreover, Li Qian looks a few years younger than himself, and it is probably his first time filming a movie.
When filming, I can at least be a real executive director. Maybe Li Qian is inexperienced and many things have to be discussed between the two of them.
There was still some time before the next interviewer, so Li Qian took the pile of manuscripts.
At first glance, it’s a comic?
"Director Li, this is the comic "Kung Fu King Prequel: Destiny" authorized by Huayang Brothers Media, which is used for the promotion of the "Kung Fu King" movie." Guo Fan introduced.
Li Qian does know that "The King of Kung Fu", starring Cheng Long and Jet Li, is a proper big production.
Li Qian looked through it with great interest. The first episode was in AD 578, when Dongsheng Shenzhou came to Huaguo Mountain proudly, and the essence of the sun and moon weathered a stone monkey.
The three simple frames seemed a bit familiar to Li Qian.
The first frame is dominated by the background of mountains. The figure of the stone monkey sitting on it is blurred, and only a rough outline can be seen.
In the second frame, the camera starts to zoom in, and the hands and feet can be clearly seen, but the face is still unclear.
The third frame is like a close-up of the face, with a ferocious face and shining eyes.
Isn't this the most commonly used storyboard in movies? The appearance of key characters always slowly approaches from far to near.
Compared to comics, this is actually more like a movie storyboard.
However, the following scenes of delisting from the underworld, searching for treasures in the Dragon Palace, and making havoc in the Heavenly Palace are normal comic storyboards.
But then, the golden cudgel fell to the world, and the same three frames were shot in succession.
Guo Fan continued, "I tried to apply the composition and montage techniques in movies to comics, using multiple key frames of film and television to express action scenes, using continuous frame-by-frame images, changing the previous action logic.
For the fundamental lens design approach"
Li Qian was noncommittal, "Movie storyboards and comic storyboards are completely different things, fundamentally different."
Guo Fan's face darkened, and then he heard Li Qian laugh again.
"However, if you are willing, you can come and work for me as an assistant director. How about also serving as the art director?"
The assistant director is very different from the executive director. The executive director is the leader of the directing team. Most of the time, the person who calls "start" is the executive director, and the person who manages the scene is also the executive director. Most of the assistant directors are around the director and the executive director.
Followers, the two are worlds apart.
Seeing the hesitation on Guo Fan's face, before he could refuse, Li Qian took out two documents and handed them over, "Here are the script and storyboards of our movie. Take a look at it first, and after two
Let’s talk to the photographer in detail tomorrow.”
Guo Fan was still thinking about whether to agree or not. Looking at the script and storyboard in front of him, he subconsciously took it over and looked at the film title above.
"Sniper Phone Booth"?
The title of the movie is quite interesting, so I immediately started reading it.
Li Qian was not angry when he saw that he ignored him and read the script by himself.
However, after waiting for a long time, he opened the storyboard again after reading the script.
Li Qian couldn't help but interrupt him and said, "Lao Guo, please take the script back and read it carefully. It will start filming in a few days."
"Oh, okay."
Only then did Guo Fan react and smiled sheepishly.
Li Qian stood up and shook his hand with a smile, "That's it, welcome to join the crew."
After Guo Fan signed the contract, he held the storyboard and read it while walking. He didn't react until he left Li Qian's studio.
I originally came to interview as an executive director, but ended up signing a contract as an assistant director.
"But the script is so well written, the 60-minute plot is fast-paced, and the final murderer turns out to be a person who has never appeared before. The storyboard script is also very mature, and you can immediately imagine the scene in your mind."
Guo Fan was so shocked that he couldn't even believe that this was written by a young man younger than himself.
"The assistant director is just an assistant director. Fortunately, he is also an art director, and the art director can also participate in the creation of the play."
Guo Fan muttered, reached out and called a car on the roadside, got in the car and left.
In the studio, Li Qian was also pleasantly surprised by today's unexpected harvest.
This Guo Fan is a talent. Apart from other things, there are not many who are better than him among the many crews in Hengdian based on his art skills.
Moreover, at first glance, he seems to be the kind of person who works in a low-key manner, so it is perfect for him to stay as the royal art director.
Li Qian thought happily, then picked up the comic and started reading it. It was quite interesting.
However, after Sun Wukong was suppressed, the scene immediately jumped to the 1970s. A man who clearly looked like Cheng Long was asked to expose himself because of his composition.
How did the painting reach that era?
Forget it, I won’t watch it anymore.
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