Perfect Life

In mid-September, Shuntian Prefecture, a certain stage theater.

"All departments are ready, the lighting team? ... ok, Miss He, are you ready?"

"I'm ready."

"ok...start!"

The headlights went off instantly.

The surrounding wall lights are bright, emitting a faint light.

A woman in a long dress walked slowly against the light.

What appeared on the monitor was her slender figure and elegant long skirt, enclosed in a thin light curtain.

Around her, there is a faint light, but herself, it is dark.

She lowered her head, put her hands in front of her, clasped her fingers together, and walked forward slowly.

The camera slowly backs up, always following her.

Da da da.

The crisp sound of high-heeled shoes resounded in the empty theater.

Until I felt that the length of this scene was enough, the director shouted decisively, "Crack!"

The lights come on again.

The cameraman skillfully jumped off the stage carrying the machine, came to the shelf that had been set up in front of the stage, adjusted the machine, adjusted the focus, framed the lens, and said, "Director, I'm fine."

The director nodded and said, "Pay attention next, Miss He, do you remember where you are going? You must walk into that circle, otherwise our headlights will not be able to find you in such a hurry, and we will not be able to shoot. To the picture that it should have!"

"I have no problem director, I remember."

"ok... headlights... ok, then everything is ready... start!"

The lights go out again.

It's still the same camera, still the same bright light.

High heels da, da, da.

The woman appeared in the camera with her whole body down, and walked to the center of the stage with her head lowered.

Her long hair draped over her shoulders, from a distance, had a unique, lonely beauty.

Then she stood still.

But still kept his head down.

With a "snap" sound, a straight beam of light shot down and shone directly on her.

The light was bright. But looking at it from outside the range of lights, this straight line of light in the dark night seems to be scattered into countless shining particles.

In such a beam of light, she was white as snow. The lowered face was still ambiguous, but the slightly pursed lips appeared on the monitor very clearly.

After a moment, she finally raised her head.

Sophisticated makeup. Elegant and charming.

It's just that she has a sad face and her eyes are far away.

Such a distant gaze seems to have no focus, just looking into the surrounding darkness, as if looking for something.

Then, she raised her head, breathed out, and slowly spread her arms.

"Standing alone on this stage and hearing the applause..."

…………

"Crack!"

The lights are on.

The director stood up. The conductor said: "This one has passed! Then what, prepare, we will take a few more scenes with the lights on in the audience later."

After he finished speaking, he looked back at Li Qian, who had been standing in the background of the monitor holding his chin and seemed to be thinking about something, and said with a smile, "How about boss? Would you like to carry the machine in the afternoon?"

At this time, He Runqing, who was still on the stage, had also come down and was walking this way. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Yes, yes, boss, come and take pictures for me in the afternoon!"

Li Qian smiled. "Don't make trouble, I'm still in the learning period, learning, pure learning!"

Director Jin Han laughed when he heard this. First, he complimented He Runqing a few times, saying that her expressions and movements just now were very good, and then after the flattery, she turned her head with a wink and pretended to direct the crew.

Well, yes, this is the shooting scene of He Runqing's new album mv.

Filming today. It's the mv of "Applause".

The venue is a rented small theater, and the actor is of course He Runqing alone. Even the scenes of the audience that need to appear in the auditorium below the stage, as well as the cut scenes of the audience entering the venue, the crew has negotiated with the theater. When I'm going to wait for the performance in the theater of the other family, I just shoot a section and cut it in.

The director Jin Han was recommended by Yu Bojun. He graduated from the Photography Department of Shuntian Film Academy and is Li Qian's senior brother. After graduating, he carried the camera for three years, and has a good reputation in the circle, but his ambition also rose, and he began to tinker with his own movies. Up to now, he is only in his early thirties, he has directed two feature films, and it is said that he has also worked on a few short films before.

His video style is very delicate, but the story is too literary and artistic, so at the box office, there is basically no achievement, and it is almost a film. Up to now, no one has dared to invest in him anymore, and he is currently running around doing errands for others. Yu Bojun's new film has started shooting, and he is the scheduled assistant director and director of photography.

Later, Li Qian's studio wanted to make a MV for Liao Liao and He Runqing. Li Qian asked Yu Bojun to ask for someone, and Yu Bojun sent him over first. The MV for 20 songs is not too big or too small. , For Jin Han, who is basically unlikely to start a new drama at present, taking this order will at least save his job first.

Although Li Qian's requirements are very strict, he requires that each song must have a story to shoot, not like the MVs of those singers in the domestic music scene, just take some scenery casually, and then put in a little singer singing. explained. But to be honest, the more this is the case, the more it suits Jin Han's appetite. If you really ask him to shoot such simple things, he may tell you directly that the job is too hard, no matter how much money I have, I will If you can't do it, you'd better find a TV director!

So, the job is decent, at least it can't be considered a loss to say it out, plus the people are poor and short-sighted, the price given by Li Qian's studio can still satisfy him, and this is why he came here.

When recommending him, Yu Bojun spoke highly of him, and from the shooting of Liao Liao's MV to the current He Runqing's MV shooting, Li Qian watched and listened along the way, and his evaluation was also quite good.

He is very good at grasping details, the image style is like his movies, delicate and smooth, with a unique smoothness that is almost like silk, and this guy deserves to have played a few movies by himself, after finding him, Everyone negotiates the requirements and treatment, and you don't need to worry about anything else. Just give the money, and they will save you a small crew in minutes, and it will run like an arm and a finger - for Li Qian. Such a director is really the most suitable introductory mentor.

There are a total of 20 MVs. Liao Liao's was filmed first. He went from writing the script to finishing the filming. It only took thirteen days, and so far, He Runqing's MV has only been filmed for four days, and it is already the sixth song, and the MV of Liao Liao's ten songs. He has already finished the rough cuts - although Li Qian has seen many fast shooters in his previous life, he still has to admire that this guy is really fast at work.

Moreover, when he edited the film, Li Qian had watched and studied several times in the past. Although his editing style was slow overall, he was full of skill, and he almost gave out the flavor of the script. Style, it may be difficult to catch fire in the film market. But the mv used for making songs is definitely overkill.

The audience bought a ticket to watch your 90-minute movie in the cinema, just to see the story, so Jin Han is definitely not good, his story is always slow and hesitant to talk, and the audience who is a little impatient can just bear with it. No, it was either an early exit or a yawn. But the fans bought the mv disc and went home to appreciate every frame of the idol. For fans, the way of Jinhan is definitely a very high-level enjoyment!

Cinematic camera. A movie-level director, movie-level editing, and movie-level imagery -- before Liao Liao and He Runqing's new albums were released, Qi Jie had already come up with a plan for MV shooting, but Li Qian saw her when he saw her. Or prepare to follow the conventions of today's music scene. Each person only selected two title songs and shot them, and then sold them together with the CD, so he rejected the plan at that time. At that time, he gave two sentences, the first and ten songs must be shot, and no Bundle, sell the mv version separately, and secondly, everything must be at the level of the movie.

Qi Jie may not know it, but Li Qian, who has come from that period of history, is very clear about this matter: the era of the future will be the era of the fan economy.

So, either don't do it, do something exciting, and build a fan base in advance.

Others bundled two sets of MVs, and a set sells for 15 yuan and 13 yuan. The new album of Liao Liao and He Runqing has no MV, so it is priced at 12 yuan. Look forward to it first, then, brush, take out ten wonderful mv, and you can directly price a box of 20 yuan, or even 25 yuan.

That is to say, for Liao Liao and He Runqing, MV is no longer a means of publicity when the album is released.

Most fans will definitely think it is too expensive and are reluctant to buy it, but they are not afraid. Just those die-hard fans of two people who are willing to pay for it and are willing to buy it back for collection are enough to sell hundreds of thousands of sets of it twice.

Then, after the second batch of CDs is out of stock, we can reduce the single-box shipments of CDs, directly bundle the CDs with ten MVs, and add some song recording footage and MV shooting footage to produce a single box. The so-called "collector's edition" and "hardcover edition" are directly priced at 40 or 50, and some people will buy them... This is another huge sum of money.

And in this way, even if the fans have made money and squeezed the profit output of the two albums of Liao Liao and He Runqing to the extreme, it is enough to make these fans recall many years later, and still clearly remember this kind of thing. A set of mv, and praised it - in Li Qian's view, this is the way to do things well.

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Jin Han was busy directing the crew to make adjustments, and Li Qian squatted in front of the monitor, adjusted the screen back, and looked at it from the beginning again, thinking while watching.

At this time, He Runqing hesitated and said, "Last time you took the cover and inside pages for me and Liao Liao, and I think the shots were pretty good. Many fans have posted on the Internet and said that your photos are very good. Beautiful, why are you so humble now?"

Li Qian smiled when he heard the words, and without turning his head, he said directly: "Sister, the distance between shooting stills and moving pictures, the distance between the camera and the camera, is the distance from the moon to the sun! I shoot stills, and now it's a little bit more. Confidence, if I take a video, I tell you, Jin Han will have to kill me if I don’t use it for an hour!”

He Runqing laughed when he heard the words.

Anyway, Li Qian stared at the screen of the monitor intently, so she stared at Li Qian recklessly.

After a while, she seemed to suddenly remember, and said, "By the way, I said last time that I wanted to invite you to my house for dinner. When are you free? Can you do it today? I'll call the nanny at home in advance. Call and ask her to go out and buy food for me."

Li Qianzheng was fascinated, and was stunned for a while when he heard the words, and then looked back at her, but quickly returned to the screen, and said indifferently: "No hurry, you owe me a few meals anyway, look back for time, I will definitely I went to eat these meals back. But for today, we have classes in the afternoon, and I have some personal affairs in the evening. "

He Runqing felt a move in his heart when he heard the words, and said with a mocking posture, "I understand that there is a class in the afternoon, but I have something to do in the evening? I seem to have heard Liao Liao say the day before yesterday, isn't your girlfriend still filming outside? You can still do it tonight. What's the matter?"

Hearing her ask this, Li Qian turned around with a smile, looked at her, and said, "Sister, you've been a little gossip lately, and you've been inquiring about it several times! We had a group of classmates for dinner tonight, and a buddy got engaged. , arranged at home, we didn't go during the summer vacation, so we made an appointment to celebrate for him tonight."

"oh, I see!"

He Runqing smiled slightly embarrassedly. Seeing Li Qian turned back to look at the monitor again, a trace of disappointment flashed across her face.

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The boss of Li Qian's dormitory, Liu Xueyi, is engaged.

The girl is holding a kiss with their family. It is said that she is the cousin of her aunt's family. Anyway, it means kissing and kissing. The girl is one year younger than him. She just graduated from high school this year. .com~ The result was a few points off. I didn’t pass the exam, and I didn’t plan to repeat the study. I was about to get married. It happened that the two families knew each other. When they were introduced by both sides, Liu Xueyi’s parents were very satisfied with the girl.

Liu Xueyi came home from the summer vacation, and the two met several times, and both sides looked at each other quite pleasing to the eye, so while Liu Xueyi was at home, they got engaged properly, and the wedding date was set at the end of this year.

There are six people in Li Qian's dormitory, plus two buddies who usually play better with Liu Xueyi, and then, plus one Sun Yuting, there are nine people in total. After class in the afternoon, they met each other and went out of the back door in a group. Go to a stall that everyone often goes to, and ask for two hundred skewers, a beer, and seven or eight cold dishes. This is the beginning.

They are all ten years old, drinking beer is all about bottle blowing, and the scene is naturally too lively.

Li Qian is not addicted to alcohol. He has always been like this from his last life to this life. He usually seldom drinks, so after everyone raised a glass to congratulate Liu Xueyi, he slowly ate skewers and chatted with everyone.

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The first chapter of the new year! (To be continued.)

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