Chapter 18 Preparations(1/2)
After seeing off the three of them, Li Xianyun returned to the room and said with a smile: "Come out, I'm doing a good job this time."
Three ghosts appeared in front of Li Xianyun in a flash.
Before Ren Zhi and the others came, Li Xianyun had already told them and practiced them in advance. Finally, although these three ghosts had different tempers, they still knew how to cooperate.
But after the cooperation was over, the starving ghost Jin Gui said, "I want to pay too!"
"And I am!" Zhang Yan said.
Xu Liangshan couldn't speak and nodded wildly while controlling the teacup. Unfortunately, there was water in the cup and he urinated directly on Li Xianyun's pants.
"What's the use of asking for money? Can you take it out and spend it?" Li Xianyun jumped up in anger. Damn, her pants were all wet.
"I want to eat." Jin Gui replied.
"You can't eat enough."
"Then you have to eat it too." Jin Gui said blankly.
Li Xianyun thought for a while and said, "I will give you three meals a day."
"not enough."
"Add snacks after you finish doing it."
"Yes!" Jin Gui nodded.
Li Xianyun looked at Zhang Yan again, and Zhang Yan grinned her teeth: "Happy!"
Damn, it’s really a romantic ghost who wants to be romantic after he dies.
"No!" Li Xianyun refused righteously.
"Givenchy." Zhang Yan changed her words.
Do you want Givenchy?
Yes, this is obsession and has nothing to do with how much. If Zhang Yan was still alive, she might still want Hermes, Gucci, and Dior, but now she is a ghost, Givenchy has become her obsession.
A Givenchy taboo kiss is the cheapest of two or three hundred.
Li Xianyun said: "One per week."
Zhang Yan nodded.
Li Xianyun looked at the old man.
Xu Liangshan didn't say anything, but suddenly pulled Jin Gui over, and beat him up directly to a weak state.
have to.
This is his salary.
Li Xianyun looked at the old man and said, "Beat once a week?"
The old man shook his head and raised three fingers.
"Once every three days?"
The old man nodded.
Jin Gui shouted wildly: "No!"
Li Xianyun said to the starving ghost: "I will give you extra meals, and every time I beat you up, I will add three more meals."
"Ten meals, I want seafood, I like salmon!" Jin Gui shouted.
I even picked up food.
Li Xianyun: "Five meals, including one salmon meal, no more than 200 grams."
Now that I am poor, Li Xianyun said that I must be stingy.
"Trade!" The starving ghost was helpless, you are the master and your boss!
The salary of the three ghosts is done like this.
The next step is to modify the script and make plans. It is best to use the shots you shot before, which makes it extremely difficult to modify the script.
For this reason, Li Xianyun looked at the filmed content and compared it repeatedly, which ones can be retained and what cannot be modified based on the existing content.
Compared to before, Li Xianyun made a script this time with great ease.
You should know that movies are the product of teamwork, each position has its own role, and it plays a different effect.
Taking the script as an example, although the script was written by the screenwriter, the producer, director, actor and producer all have a certain say in the script, and their ideas are still different.
When the screenwriter makes a script, he considers two things: one, the story is good, and the two, the characters are outstanding.
The producer’s requirements for the script are from an operational perspective, for example: I know a boss and can give us a free venue. You can’t use this hospital scene now, so you change it to a dental clinic for me... Ren Zhi has done this.
The director's perspective on the script is based on the picture. For example, if you can tell stories with pictures, don't use lines. The big gold watch will appear at the beginning. I care whether your gold watch is a foreshadowing? I asked it to come up... This matter has been greatly promoted.
The producer's perspective on the script is based on investors. For example, if investors want to advertise their own brand, your core prop must be modified. Our investors are handbag vendors, yes, this treasure of savior must be a handbag. I don't care about how your handbag can save the world? That's the issue you need to consider... A lot of people have done this kind of thing.
The actors' perspective of the script is based on their own needs, such as: this character is too bad and does not treat my image. I don't care if you play the villain? What's wrong with Daji? There must be highlights, change it for me... A bunch of big names have done it.
This is just from the perspective of position. Everyone also has their own artistic creation concept, personality, style, and different views and pursuits for things. There is no way to literature, so don’t matter whether you understand it or not, you can give you a few blind words after getting the script.
That’s not enough. Sometimes you have to consider the need to win prizes, so you have to be warm, cured, humanistic care, philosophical thinking, and sublimated themes!
This is also necessary, do you want to make shit for you?
So screenwriters are so miserable. On the contrary, no one can just postpone technical professions such as finance, taxation, legal programmers and other technical professions - the threshold is high, if you don’t understand, you just don’t understand. What you will get is a sentence like “You know J, 8”.
In short, the result is that the screenwriters compromised through these countless requests.
In the end, when you satisfy everyone, the script becomes mediocre.
But on the other hand, as a popular product, movies are high-investment products, and they themselves strive to be responsible for the most people. So real commercial films are exactly this way - most top commercial blockbusters are mediocre in scripts, but they can sell well because they come to meet the needs of most people.
To meet the needs of most people, it must be simple.
Only simple can one be unified!
So it is not that the screenwriter cannot write good stories, but that the continuous weakening caused by these demands has caused the script level to decline again and again, while the film and commercialization themselves are improving.
So the spectators criticized the story as bad as they entered the cinema. At the same time, they couldn't figure out why such mediocre stories took a year to polish them, but they didn't know that behind those mediocrity were countless concessions, compromises and balance considerations.
So it can also be understood as a necessary price, but the unlucky one is always the screenwriter - as the sacrificed party, the one who achieves others and the one who is scolded is the one who is scolded.
This time, Li Xianyun is the producer, producer, producer and director himself. There is no big name to point him in hand, and there is no need to consider the big market. Therefore, the script is highly easy and efficient. It takes only one day to complete the first draft, and then it is self-supervision and revision, and try to read the script from different angles.
This depends on the ability of individual self-cognition. If one has strong self-cognition ability, one person has the highest efficiency and the best results.
If you don’t have strong self-awareness, you will become shit immediately without the assistance of others - other people’s opinions can help you or lead you incorrectly.
Today, I was working hard to modify it when the phone suddenly rang.
It was called by Jiang Mei'er.
"Screenwriter teacher, I heard you want to take over the crew?" Jiang Mei'er made it straight to the point.
"Well, yes, how did you know?" Li Xianyun asked.
"Ren Zhi came over and said that he wanted to leave some people behind, but because he wanted to change the script, he couldn't start filming for the time being. He wanted to make an appointment with us for a reshoot. I heard that you took over, so I wanted to ask about this."
Li Xianyun smiled and said, "Promise him, the script should be able to be modified soon, and then filming will start directly."
"Then all the shots I took before were wasted?"
"Well, I'm trying to find a way to keep some, especially Zhang Yao, who is still a star after all. It's a bit of a promotional effect to keep her shots, so I'll improve some grades." Li Xianyun said with a headache while looking at the camera.
It’s easy to change the rest of the crew, but the actors are the most troublesome.
Jiang Mei'er said: "Zhang Yao doesn't want to continue acting. Have you ever thought about finding someone else to replace her? I mean using a stand-in."
"Hmm? What does it mean?"
Jiang Mei'er said: "Zhang Yao wants to breach the contract, and it is logical that she will return all the money. But she will definitely not give it to you. It is time-consuming to sue. I was thinking that if she could find a stand-in to play her role, the condition is that she does not need to refund the salary, which may be a solution."
Other actors don’t have much money, have few scenes, and have no fame, so they can change it. The key is Zhang Yao.
This woman had already received half of the pay for the film before. She didn't want to refund the money or acted in the show, which was a problem. If she could use someone else to replace her, it would be a way.
"Where can I find someone who looks so good?" Li Xianyun asked.
It’s easy to replace the naked ones with hands. If you can replace the face, what else do actors do?
Jiang Mei'er gritted her teeth: "What do you think of me?"
Um?
Li Xianyun was stunned.
But if you think about it carefully, Jiang Mei'er and Zhang Yao have some similarities in appearance. With the makeup magic technique, you can add a plot if it really doesn't work. The heroine was injured and had a little facial repair...
There are always more ways than difficulties.
Li Xianyun understood: "Do you want to participate in the show?"
"Yeah." Jiang Mei'er smiled and said, "Actually, who doesn't have the dream of an actor?"
Li Xianyun smiled and said, "You make a styling and shoot a video, and I'll see if it's OK."
To be continued...