Chinese Entertainment 2017: Starting from the Top Writers

Chapter 296 Chapter 296 The Wrong Thought

"Take a break, we'll take a video later."

Hearing Lin Li's words, Zhou Ye's pretty face instantly turned red.

"Isn't it too fast? This is not good."

Zhou Ye lowered his head shyly, his hands moving in front of him with a conflicted look on his face.

"What are you doing? It's just a video, why are you blushing?"

Lin Li raised his head from the monitor and looked at Zhou Ye in front of him with a look of curiosity.

"Didn't you say that we should take a video together?"

Zhou Ye raised his eyes and glanced at him quickly, then lowered his head again, his fair and tender face already covered with a layer of pink.

Lin Li reacted instantly and realized that he had misunderstood!

He looked at Zhou Ye with a funny expression: "Yezi, I want you to help me shoot a video. I promised the fans yesterday. Have you forgotten?"

"what!"

"Oh, no, no, I didn't forget it, I remember it!"

Zhou Ye raised his head and met Lin Li's playful eyes. He instantly wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into!

Zhou Ye! You are so embarrassing!

You thought, you thought...

Oh! I’m going to die!
She was wondering why Lin Li wanted to take an intimate video with her all of a sudden!

"Why, yezi, you are not thinking wrongly, are you?"

Lin Li put on a suspicious expression.

"No way! How is that possible!"

"I just didn't react for a moment, and I thought you were going to shoot some indecent video!"

Zhou Ye raised his little face, feeling justified but confident.

"Why, what other indecent videos have you watched?"

Lin Li glanced at Zhou Ye with a suspicious look on his face.

He inexplicably felt that his character had been insulted. He didn't even dare to think about that. This little girl actually thought of herself ahead of him. What a great shame!

"Ah! What nonsense are you talking about?"

"I... I'm just afraid that you're going to take advantage of me. I'm a weak woman on the crew, and you're the director, and I don't dare to resist... wuwuwu..."

Zhou Ye pretended to be about to cry, looking aggrieved but unable to speak out.

"Okay, okay, I was wrong, I was wrong!"

"Yezi, please stop using your magical powers!"

Lin Li quickly stood up and bowed his head to admit his mistake, not daring to tease her again.

"Humph!"

"You'll squeeze me!"

Zhou Ye's expression instantly changed. He raised his delicate chin and hummed complacently.

"Okay, let's get down to business. Use my phone to take the video."

Lin Li handed the phone out and motioned Zhou Ye to take it.

"What are you filming?"

Zhou Ye took the phone and asked curiously.

"It's simple. Just point your phone at me and record it. You don't need to use any techniques. It's just a simple greeting video."

"clear."

Zhou Ye nodded like a chick pecking at rice, with a look of excitement on his face.

As the photographer of Lin Li’s first Tik Tok video, she is very happy.

You know, the video that Lin Li took for her last time was very popular, and she also wanted to take a handsome video for Lin Li!

"Then come on."

Lin Li greeted him, then walked to an open space, straightened his collar, stood up and looked at Zhou Ye.

Today, Lin Li is wearing a short black down jacket with a white round-neck sweater underneath, and black trousers and black flat shoes. It is a very simple outfit.

He was also wearing a black baseball cap, and looked very capable.

"Wait a moment."

Zhou Ye glanced up and down, then walked to Lin Li and reached out to adjust the collar of his sweater. After making sure that Zhou was correct, he raised his eyes and looked at Lin Li.

"it's good now."

"Thank you."

Lin Li lowered his eyes to look at her, the corners of his lips curved slightly, and his tone was gentle.

"You're welcome."

Zhou Ye answered crisply, with two dimples appearing on her fair cheeks.

"Are you ready?"

Zhou Ye returned to his original position again and asked.

"Just move back a little bit so that my upper body can be exposed."

"Here?"

"Can you show your upper body perfectly?"

"OK."

"Then here."

"Okay, then you get ready."

"Okay, ready."

"Okay, then we'll start when I say three, two, one."

"Yeah, okay." "Three"

"two"

"One"

"start!"

As Zhou Ye's last words fell, she turned on the camera function of Tik Tok and started recording.

Lin Li put his hands behind his back and stood straight in the open space, with a gentle smile on his lips.

"Hello everyone, I'm Lin Li. I opened this video account based on everyone's suggestions yesterday. I will also use this account to share some of the crew's daily life with you from time to time. I hope you will like it."

After saying this, Lin Li raised his right hand and waved it gently towards the camera of his mobile phone. The greeting video ended here.

"Okay, done!"

Zhou Ye clicked the button to end the filming, then waved his phone and spoke to Lin Li with full energy.

"Well, let's just post it like this."

Lin Li walked towards Zhou Ye, opened his arms and stretched lazily.

"Ah? How about adding some music or something and just post it like this?"

"Send it, just say hello, be casual."

"Okay, I'll send it then."

"Send it."

Seeing that Lin Li didn't seem to be joking, Zhou Ye replayed the video he had just shot, and after confirming that there was no problem, he clicked send.

She just felt that it seemed a bit random, and it would be better if it could be accompanied by some music.

"Okay."

“I wonder how many comments your first video will get. It should be a lot.”

"I'm a little curious."

Zhou Ye handed the phone to Lin Li with an expectant look on his face.

"I do not know."

"By the way, Ye Zi, do you have a video account? I can follow you."

Lin Li took the phone and asked casually.

"Ah? I don't have one. I don't usually think of getting one, but many of my classmates have one."

Zhou Ye answered honestly.

"Please create an account and I will follow you later."

"Tik Tok will become a very important promotional platform in the future. As an actor, you still need to use this platform to do more business."

"Is that so? Then I am considered to be riding on your popularity, hehe."

"Why, don't you want to rub it?"

"Of course I want to use it for free, hehe~ I'll sign up right away."

"Well, let's go back first. You can do it in the car."

"Uh-huh."

Lin Li thought about it, if he remembered correctly, 18 was the year when TikTok exploded.

He remembers that every summer 18 years later, short videos with the theme "The summer of 18 is the most beautiful summer" would occupy the Douyin hot list.

Why do so many people miss the summer of 18? What is there in that summer that is worth reminiscing about? In other words, what exactly are people missing?
In 18, I watched short videos not to kill boring afternoons, but to see the life of another person in another city through a 15-second video.

There is no embarrassing or deliberately arranged script to make us pick our feet. Maybe it is just a skateboarding video of us nimbly moving among the crowd, or the red glow outside the window when we are on an airplane, which can make us amazed and intoxicated.

The video is short, but the thoughts are far-reaching. At the 16th second, did he coax his girlfriend? Would her eyes be more affectionate? The short video, like a frame, takes 15 seconds off someone else's life and connects it to our life.

Lin Li was most impressed by a girl in a parking lot. At that time, he didn't understand why a short melody with no meaning and movements that were almost off the beat could get millions of likes.

In terms of technique, any dance host later on could crush her, and even the so-called "slow shake" was better than hers.

In terms of appearance, the girl is pretty, but not stunningly beautiful.

Later he realized that what made people unforgettable was just a girl who couldn't keep up with the rhythm and casually fiddled with her hair. Her imperfections and her unintentional natural movements allowed us to see the cute 15 seconds of a beautiful girl next door in the parking lot.

At that time, people were not watching short videos, but watching a girl doing an impromptu dance in a parking lot.

This is something that is not done intentionally, and it is not real life that will appear in front of lighting boards or ambient lights.

In fact, later on, many authors also wanted to give people a natural feeling and make people feel that the author is around.

But a script is just a script. No matter how good the actors' acting skills are, they cannot give the audience a sense of sharing life.

What we want to see is not the short video maker, what we want to see is another person’s ordinary life.

Short videos are a test of one's skills. It is difficult to explain something clearly, and it is even more difficult to explain it clearly in one sentence.

15 seconds is a limit. Compared with previous long videos, it is similar to the high school Chinese language question "Summarize the main idea of ​​the article in one sentence".

Faced with this limitation, authors have only two choices. One is to say less, express a single theme, sing only the climax, and record life and the funniest two lines of dialogue.

The other is to highly refine the content without any drag, like the previous technical flow, where transitions and camera movements must be done in one go. Any delay will exceed the length of the film, so we can be amazed that the author can bring us so many levels of shock within 15 seconds.

Now that he was pushed to register this video account, Lin Li was wondering if he could put some thought into promoting the boy on TikTok videos.

After all, the fact that "A Tragedy and Reversal" could achieve such good results is due to the great help given by the principal, otherwise it would be impossible to get such a high box office with such a tragic theme.

The current film and television industry has not yet noticed the fertile ground of short video promotion, unlike many later audiences who were "tricked" into the cinema by short videos.

After all, Zhang Yimou has to watch the actors' performances and be "shocked" countless times in short videos every day. The audience watching the movie on site either covers their faces and cries, or laughs out loud, in all kinds of expressions, which makes netizens who have not yet entered the theater curious.

Is this movie really that good?
This looks great!
In short, just trick your way into the cinema first.

He believes that the quality of the show will definitely satisfy the audience, but the prerequisite is that the audience must first be curious, right?
Thinking of this, Lin Li had some ideas in his mind.

After simply packing up their things, the two turned around and walked out of the set together. Zhou Ye followed Lin Li closely, and from time to time she raised her little face to share some of her girlish ideas with him.

Lin Li would also answer each of her questions seriously, and would occasionally look down at her from the side. Under the moonlight, the two figures were stretched very long, overlapping from time to time, and they looked extremely compatible.

The smile on Zhou Ye's face never stopped. It created two cute dimples at the corners of her mouth, one deep and one shallow, making her smile even sweeter.

——When you are with someone you love, even if you are just saying the most ordinary words, it will feel romantic.

(End of this chapter)