This actor just wants to verify.

Chapter 245 This is my uncle (asking for monthly ticket)

The MV is a win-win situation for Hao Yun and An Xiaoxi.

If the popularity of "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" is 100%, then Wang Yuyan can account for at least 20%. Now that she appears in Hao Yun's album, Hao Yun's album MV has suddenly become the most popular MV of the year.

Zhang Yadong signed up Hao Yun for many award selection activities.

Eastern Billboard, Pepsi Music Billboard, MTV Asia Music Awards, Global Chinese Music Chart...

Most of them were nominated.

But it is hard to say whether or not you can win the award.

After all, there were so many classic songs last year that it’s no exaggeration to say it was a battle between gods.

For example, SHE's "Super Star", Jay Chou's "Dongfeng Po", Chen Yixun's "Ten Years", Shuimu Nianhua's "In A Foreign Land", Sun Yanzi's "Meeting", Shin Band's "Farewell Song", Ou Deyang's "Lonely Northern Hemisphere", Yu Quan and Huang Zheng's "Running", etc., etc.

A lot, and very good.

Even for newcomers who have just debuted, there are heaven-defying works like Shabao Liang's "Anxiang". Hao Yun's "Ningxia" is indeed very popular, but if we talk about classics, it is at most one of many classics.

It’s impossible to dominate the music scene in 2003.

Hao Yun can only pin his hopes on the 2004 album "Hao Yun Comes Again". He plans to have five songs and release it around the middle of the year.

The total global sales of this album "A Lifetime of Hao Luck" should not be less than 30 copies, which is close to that of first-tier singers.

Since the MV had almost no cost and Hao Yun was the composer of the lyrics, he was able to get most of the money.

Tens of thousands will definitely be no problem.

Moreover, the income is continuous and not just from selling records. Hao Yun does not want to miss this long-term business.

Anyway, you can get songs as rewards by participating in music competitions, so if you don’t release a record, you can save it for having children.

I just don't know what songs can be awarded for the eighth-level guitar certificate and the fifth-level guzheng certificate. It would be great if there is a song like "Ningxia".

Two albums are enough to establish his status as a singer.

If there are any commercial performances by singers in the future, maybe he will be the one to take charge.

It's so damn cool to be able to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars just by singing two songs. It's more profitable than attending funerals and dancing at graves before.

As for An Xiaoxi, she did not gain nothing from filming this MV.

Wang Yuyan’s image is too lofty and even a little unrealistic.

The image of the little girl in the MV shows her other side.

"I still don't quite understand why it has to be so complicated?" Lao Wu's first version of the soundtrack was rejected by Hao Yun, so he decided to follow Zhang Yifan to learn more about the movie.

He knew the story of the movie, but he was confused by the narrative style of the movie.

This is not a finished film after all, but something to be edited.

"Our story is a non-linear one. In this way, a bizarre case is presented from different perspectives of different people, and the complete truth is finally pieced together. Behind the truth lies a profound philosophical thought. There is no need to deliberately pursue the completeness of the plot, and the ending changes from a single certainty to ambiguity, which increases the contingency and weakens the inevitability, which can further trigger the audience's thinking."

Hao Yun patiently explained to Lao Wu that Lao Wu was very efficient and skilled at work, but the atmosphere did not meet Hao Yun's requirements.

Hao Yun is rather casual on the set, that's because he has done the storyboarding well.

The actors basically just need to act accordingly.

Moreover, the style of the movie "The Heart Labyrinth" is natural. Excessive demands will make the performance override the story.

However, in the later stages, Hao Yun was not so easy to talk to.

Whether it is Zhang Yifan or Lao Wu, they must perfectly implement his ideas to achieve the results he wants.

"I understand. There are flashbacks, interpolations, and supplementary narrations. I learned about them when I was in school. But your non-linear narrative is too complicated. Aren't you afraid that the audience won't understand it? If they can't understand it, who are you going to sell it to?"

Lao Wu is a rock musician, and he feels that there is no difference between this and making movies.

Rock musicians often get too excited and come up with some weird things, and then they think that the audience has no appreciation for their music.

"Let me put it this way. From the perspective of suspense and art films, we can't make it too easy for the audience to understand the movie, just like the 'Rashomon' we watched a few days ago, as well as 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and 'Pulp Fiction'." In order to make it easier for editors and composers to understand, Hao Yun played a lot of movies with non-linear narratives.

This film narrative technique can be traced back to the 1916 film "Insects" directed by David Griffith.

He was the first to try out non-linear narrative.

The four stories are not told one after another, but are divided into small fragments, which are then rearranged and presented alternately, with only a shot of a mother rocking the cradle as a transition.

There are many people in Hong Kong who play this kind of movie, such as "Infernal Affairs 3" and "The Birth of a Gangster".

There are not many in the mainland.

In other words, few people use this narrative style as a tool to increase the suspense of the film.

When Jiang Wen was telling the story of "Sunny Days", he used some non-linear narrative techniques, interspersed scenes from different time periods, showing the fate and inner emotional changes of multiple characters, making the movie more vivid and interesting.

However, there are so many brilliant aspects of his movie that this little bit of showmanship seems insignificant.

Hao Yun is one of the few mainland directors who can play with non-linear narrative so well.

Well, he is still a rookie director.

Lao Wu was so frightened that he had no choice but to follow Hao Yun's request and make a more emotional soundtrack.

Zhang Yifan had long been numb.

Judging from the amount of film consumed, this movie was definitely not shot by Jiang Wen, but judging from the quality of the content, one has to wonder whether Jiang Wen was teaching the crew step by step on the set.

After all, the styles are so similar and the gameplay is so high-end.

If Hao Yun learns this, it would be quite interesting - just imagine if Jiang Wen stopped wasting film...

Hao Yun will definitely become a hot commodity.

Zhang Yifan’s next work is “Letter from a Stranger Woman”. He originally planned to read the original novel first, but now he is immersed in Hao Yun’s “Heart Labyrinth” and can’t stop for a moment.

"Thank you for your hard work. We'll have a big dinner later." Hao Yun still had a lot of money left from filming this movie.

The main reason was that the budget was relatively sufficient, and a movie that could have been made with two or three million yuan could have been made, but he managed to get an investment of four million yuan.

Well, the more important point is that Jiang Wen did not interfere throughout the whole process.

If the film goes through the international film festival route, a lot of money can be saved on publicity and promotion.

Even if it doesn't win an award and is just a participant in an exhibition, it will be widely reported by the media - a 22-year-old young man, making a work that can be exhibited for the first time as a director, isn't that eye-catching enough?

Well, if that's not enough.

How about adding this article “My Producer Jiang Wen”?
Oh! What a surprise it would be if Jiang Wen was really in this movie!

There was another sentence in that article that was very "meaningful" - I silently said to myself: "This is my uncle, my father's younger brother, my real uncle."

By then it will be easy to sell the overseas copyright.

With this confidence, Hao Yun, Zhang Yifan and Lao Wu always order six dishes when they eat out, and sometimes they even ask the boss to warm up a pot of wine.

The post-production work of a movie is mainly about conveying your own ideas, which is more difficult at the beginning.

Once everyone has formed a certain tacit understanding, not only will he not need to interfere too much, but things will also get done faster and faster.

It will definitely be submitted for review in February.

Not to mention the Berlin Film Festival in February, there is some hope for Cannes in May, but this depends on the efficiency of the review work - all I can say is don't hold out too much hope.

But the Venice Film Festival in September is certainly fine.

Moreover, Hao Yun has a very good control over the content of the film. This film is mainly about human nature, and there is almost no risk of it being sent back for revision.

Hao Yun stayed in the capital until late January, and only began to prepare to return home on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month.

As for Zhang Yifan and Lao Wu, they will most likely have to work overtime in the capital during the New Year.

(End of this chapter)