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The meeting will start all morning.

The drama "Legend of the New White Snake" has come to this point, and the stage of the crew has only taken the first step, but there are already many people who need to participate in it.

Although they are both producers, Feng Yumin and Yu Bojun are both names. The former is for the convenience of borrowing each other's contacts and resources, while the latter is simply for the convenience of drawing strong men from Yu Bojun's team. Therefore, Li Qian is the only producer who will really participate in the entire production and shooting process.

Then, the director, Li Qian, needless to say.

Production director Han Shunzhang, this is the money bag and the big housekeeper. In terms of the system, if the crew of this play is replaced by Minghu Culture, then his position is equivalent to Qi Jie, the general manager. And Li Qian, and others, are only in charge of artistic creation. Therefore, of course, contacting actors and agents, negotiating contracts, going out to buy props, hiring people, making costumes, etc., must also be the work of the production director.

Art director, Cao Zhan, under him, there are many aspects such as art, costumes, props, scenery, makeup, etc., all of which are in charge of him.

The director of photography, Jin Han, is mainly responsible for the photography team and lighting team.

For the photography team, it is relatively easy to solve, because they are all their own people, they can use it when they pull over, and they all know the bottom line. At present, Jin Han is definitely the number one, the number one camera, and the main photographer.

In addition to him, Yang Jie, the photographer in his small film team in recent years. Although he was only born in Ye Luzi, and later went to the specialized training course of Huaxia Academy of Drama for two years, his standard was also quite good, ranking No. 2.

And a photographer, Du Yuchun, whom Yu Bojun helped contact, is a veteran who has been in the arena for many years. He has filmed many big directors in the film industry. The two parties have agreed that he will also come and join the team. At that time, Li Qian will need to adjust the division of labor between him and Yang Jie according to the specific performance and specific camera needs.

Then. After the above three can guarantee the quality of the lens, it would be a waste to hire a photographer of sufficient quality, but sometimes four cameras are used to work at the same time, or occasionally someone has an unexpected situation, so Li Qian Among their classmates, Fu Xuelong, the fifth dormitory veteran, who was considered to be the highest level, even Li Qian felt that his photography was full of talent, became the backup photographer for the team.

Except for him, of course. Lu Bin will also follow. It is a drama manager and an errand. It can also be used temporarily. In addition, Li Qian also learned this, so I don't worry about the lack of photographers, but the quality is high.

In addition, there is a very important person to join. That is the second director of Yu Bojun's family film and television production company besides Yu Bojun, called Zhao He.

To be honest, apart from occasionally acting as a producer or assistant director for Yu Bojun's films, he is also a character who makes a movie every year or two. He is not a big celebrity, but he makes commercial movies. Still very experienced! In terms of celebrity status, he is no less than Yu Bojun, and Li Qian, a rookie director, is even more incomparable.

However, I don't know if I feel that I have to be busy doing the later stages of "Love of Spring Onion", so I can't help, I can't help my brother, or I really fear that Li Qian will lose it. Anyway, he didn't know what to do, but he was stunned to pull such a director who has been in the film circle for many years to make a TV series, and he still served as an assistant director for Li Qian.

In short, his arrival can be regarded as an escort.

And this time the meeting will mainly be Li Qian, Zhao He, Han Shunzhang, Cao Zhan and Jin Han.

At the beginning, Zhu Mingyu was also there, because she was responsible for determining the style of the crew in terms of costume design, styling design, art, and scenery, so she participated in the discussion. In her office, she began to summarize and sort out this part. When the meeting was over, she would start running these things together with Cao Zhan and Han Shunzhang.

After Zhu Mingyu left, everyone began to discuss the lighting team and martial arts.

These two belong to the technical field, and it is not sloppy, but they are not very selective - there are so many famous lighting teams and martial arts teams across the country, and so many movies and TV series are being filmed every year, unless people You have to take a holiday by yourself, otherwise it will be almost endless work, so each has its own work circle, and people don’t need to jump out of the fixed circle to pick up the work, and even in a fixed circle, you need to use other people’s team. , that also requires an appointment in advance, so unless you're willing to wait, there's little to choose from.

But, don't look down on it. When watching a movie or TV series, few people will pay attention to the lighting crew of a play, and very few will watch the martial arts, but for a play, the martial arts decides Whether the martial arts scenes look good or not is a big selling point in the context of domestic martial arts that are always very popular, and the lighting team is even more critical. He even directly determines whether the shots of a play are good or not - whether the shots are good or not, At least half of it depends on whether you play well or not!

Half of the so-called layering and the so-called beauty of the lens are in the lighting group!

Especially for technical controllers like Jin Han and Li Qian who advocate the beauty of the lens, even the martial arts can make do with it, but the lighting is absolutely impossible!

In terms of martial arts, Yu Bojun has already helped to contact Lu Jiaban, and the other party has promised to join the group in early October. This class is not as famous as Niujiaban in the industry, but it is also a big cow who participates in the shooting of many martial arts movies and TV series every year. Although the price is not cheap, Li Qian still decided.

As for the lighting team, Jin Han has his own team that is often used. He must cooperate with him quite tacitly, and it is obvious that the two sides have a good relationship. Although they often take other people's work, as long as Jin Han says hello, then The brothers came right away, but... there were too few people!

In the past, Jin Han's practice was to focus on the brothers before shooting, and then temporarily find a few lighting engineers from the single gang, squeeze them together, and train while shooting, that's all. Because the lighting group is almost always chasing a certain fixed object to run. Some are chasing directors, some are chasing production companies, if you want to use someone else's formed lighting group, it is not easy to find.

This time, although he was still going to adopt Jin Han's old method, Li Qian was going to make some adjustments, that is, recruit a group of people into the group. While working, let Jin Han teach, and after teaching, sign a long-term employment contract directly. Including Jinhan's photography, lighting and other teams. Li Qian is all ready to get in touch, and when the filming is over, they will all sign in.

Looking at the development history of commercial films and TV series for decades, but behind every successful director and film and TV series, there must be a creative team above the level of long-term cooperation.

Art design, costume design, photographer, lighting engineer, editing, soundtrack... These technicians, although they may be unknown in the market, are even more important to producers and directors than those famous actors!

After these two points were settled, the issue of scene selection was discussed again.

involves scene selection. Slightly controversial.

It is helpless to say that because of the age, in the filming of domestic costume dramas, the film and television city has been in existence since the 1980s, but it has always focused on the architectural styles of the Ming Dynasty and the Shun Dynasty. Later, there were also film and television cities in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. When the filming of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" began, Huaxia TV station invested heavily in the construction of the Three Kingdoms Film and Television City and the Qin and Han Film and Television City. Therefore, there are also filming bases in that area. Only the film and television city in the Song Dynasty has only one in China, and it is located in Kaifeng, Henan Province. It mainly presents the standard style of Bianliang City in the Northern Song Dynasty, while other buildings are relatively simple.

However, the era of "The Legend of the New White Snake" was set during the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was not a court drama.

But there is no way. Even if Li Qian has some money in his pocket, he can't build a film and television city. Therefore, after discussion, we can only temporarily decide that all interior scenes will be filmed in the Ming Dynasty Film and Television City in Shuntianfu, and the town market will go to Kaifengfu, and if you need to shoot a large-scale water scene, you must go through a field inspection and then determine whether it is If you go to the Canal Film and Television City, you should go to the Film and Television City over there in Zhejiang.

Then, for the large exterior scenes, we mainly consider Mount Qingcheng, Mount Emei, Zhangjiajie and the West Lake Scenic Spot in Hangzhou Prefecture.

After discussing this, the person in charge of the technical part of the crew, even if they have a work direction, Li Qian and Zhao He will go out to investigate the scene first, Jin Han will also go out to see the MV after filming, Cao Zhan and Han Shunzhang , Zhu Mingyu and his wife are responsible for organizing the work team.

Of course, before that, there is still a very important piece to discuss, and that is actors.

The most important actors in the whole play are the trio first: Xu Xian and Xu Shilin are one, Bai Suzhen and Hu Meiniang are one, and then there are Qing Snake and Xiao Qing.

In addition, monk Fahai, Xu Xian's sister Xu Jiaorong, Xu Xian's brother-in-law Li Gongfu, and Xu Shilin's brother Qi Baoshan, Li Gongfu's daughter Li Bilian, and the villain little prince.

Next, there are people such as the Five Ghosts, the Dharma King of the Golden Cymbals, the Taoist priest of Maoshan, the maid Caiyin of Hu Meiniang, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Yang Zhixian, Madam Yang, Wang Ye and others.

Casting is an extremely important job, and the degree of conformity between actors and roles directly determines the success or failure of a play.

In this regard, Zhao He, the assistant director, has been in the circle for the longest time, so he has the most experience, and Jin Han has always been a bit of a hitman, but he is also an expert. Instead, it is Cao Zhan, who is only familiar with individual actors. Put forward some important suggestions, specific to ordinary actors, if nothing else, just the range of people he knows determines that he can't give very good suggestions.

As for Li Qian, when he first entered the industry, his vision was limited to the movies and TV series he had watched before, and the people he knew when he was filming "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Although this is his TV series, and he has a classic for reference, he is more clear about the actor's needs, almost clear, so he can be targeted, but he still listens patiently to everyone recommending actors for various roles.

Unlike the previous things, there are so many things involved in the selection of actors, so when it is discussed, time flies. It was noon, and before the meeting was over, the company called for a working lunch, and a few of them chatted while eating. After eating, they continued the meeting.

Anyway, for a relatively important role, everyone worked together and discussed several candidates for selection. In the end, Han Shunzhang, who was in charge of the meeting minutes, took several pages of notes just by the name of the actor.

Next, the main task of Li Qian and Zhao He is to choose roles first.

...

At three thirty in the afternoon, this meeting was finally over.

Fruitful, but also exhausting.

After the meeting. Everyone is going to do things separately.

The assistant director Zhao He had to go out to investigate the scene first, so as to provide Li Qian with shooting advice. Jin Han had to continue to shoot the MV, even if he was shooting and cutting, until the albums of He Runqing and Rose Power were all finished. About twenty days of work, Han Shunzhang is responsible for giving the rough budget of the whole play first. Then we have to talk to the lighting team and martial arts team that have been finalized, including photographers, drama management and other staff. Go and negotiate the remuneration one by one and sign the contract.

Then, he didn't even care about the costumes and props, because next, once he started to contact the actors and talked about film appointments, it was his job again, and it was the bulk of the job. Of course, during the specific negotiations, Zou Wenhuai will assist from the side. After all, when it comes to the entertainment industry, that's the old bird, and when it comes to negotiating, it's also a master.

As for the actors who have been recorded in the meeting memorandum, Lu Bin, the drama manager who has already decided, is responsible for collecting information, including acting experience, personal photos, stills, personal performance styles, etc., all together. Then hand it over to Li Qian. After Li Qian has formed a certain amount of thinking, he will start to have specific contact with the actors.

After the meeting was over, everyone didn't even drink a pot of tea, so they went their own way.

On the ninth floor of Minghu Culture, which has been vacant until now, there are several offices that have been simply renovated. At this time, it has begun to come in handy. Zhu Mingyu occupied one room. According to the results of the meeting, she will refine the artistic requirements and ideas of the entire play into a concrete and visible plan, and Han Shunzhang also occupied a room. ,currently. Just a little bit, make a budget.

At 5:30 in the afternoon, the ordinary staff of Minghu Culture left soon after they got off work. With the completion of the recording of Rose Power, many musicians who had been a little idle recently even showed up two hours in advance. Now, in the entire eighth floor, only a few people are still busy. As for the ninth floor, only Han Shunzhang and Zhu Mingyu are left.

Night, half past seven.

After Zhu Mingyu's work came to an end, he felt hungry, so he stood up and stretched, then simply sorted out the things he made today, put it in his bag, and then pushed the door and walked out.

The light in the next room was still on.

She knocked on the door and pushed in.

Strangely, Han Shunzhang didn't actually work at his desk, but was standing in front of the window smoking a cigarette.

The central air conditioner is off, and the room is a little hot, but the window is open, and the night breeze is blowing, and the air feels transparent.

Hearing the knock on the door, Han Shunzhang had already turned around, and when Zhu Mingyu pushed the door in, he smiled, raised his right hand, shook the cigarette in his hand, and said with a smile, "You just lit it, and you just happened to be caught. in force."

Zhu Mingyu smiled and walked over.

It was already dark outside the window, and the upstairs opposite and the upstairs on the side had occasional lights, but most of them were dark.

The street lights on the street downstairs are yellow, and there are endless cars.

On the Fourth Ring Road farther away, there is a lot of traffic, and the lights of one car after another add up, shining like a galaxy.

Han Shunzhang was facing the window, blowing the night wind, looking out the window calmly, raising his hand to take a cigarette from time to time.

Zhu Mingyu stood beside her, feeling the slightly hot wind blowing his hair, stared at the outside for a long time, then turned his head and asked, "How are you doing?"

"Budget?" Han Shunzhang said, "It's almost the same. Li Qian has already made a budget before, and frankly speaking, there are not many things I can change. He has really put in a lot of hard work, and the budget is quite in place. It's not too bad! It's just that some details may have to be scrutinized, but after all, it's just a budget, and the details are not going anywhere."

Zhu Mingyu nodded, thought for a while, reached out and took the cigarette from his hand, took a puff, blew it away with the wind, and then handed the cigarette back. Han Shunzhang asked while picking up the cigarette, "What about you? Do you have any eyebrows?"

Zhu Mingyu nodded and said, "The idea he gave is very clear. My work is relatively simple to do, that is..." Having said that, seeing Han Shunzhang handing over the cigarette again, she took it and took a puff, handed it back, and spit it out. He came out and said with a smile: "I just don't know why, I think the simpler the job, the more troublesome it may be next."

Hearing this, Han Shunzhang was surprised and asked, "Why?"

Zhu Mingyu frowned slightly, raised his face for a while, and said with a smile, "I don't know if I'm thinking right or not, but it gives me the feeling that the whole play is already in his mind. It can be seen from the split shots, what kind of costume he wants, what kind of set, and even what each actor should look like and how to speak, he already has the exact idea in his mind. And this kind of idea…"

Speaking of which, she shook her head and said a little distressedly: "I don't know if you understand what I mean, what I want to say is... Well, it seems that he has already filmed this TV series, and he has already seen it. The TV drama looks the same after the filming, so for him, everything involved in this drama is not just a question of thinking and direction, it is all set to death! It must be like this, it must not be like that …Do you know what I mean?"

Han Shunzhang looked at her in astonishment, then laughed, and said, "So, you don't actually have much room to play?"

"YES!" Zhu Mingyu praised in response, took the cigarette and took a puff, saying: "So, this job seems simple, because as long as you do what he wants, you can go through it over and over again, it's completely OK, but as long as it doesn't meet the requirements, I'm sure he will ask me to change, change, change over and over again!" After speaking, she took another puff, and she shrugged.

Han Shunzhang smiled and shook his head, while taking the cigarette back, he said: "You think too much! Before a movie starts shooting, the director already has a rough picture in his mind. This is something that many directors can indeed do. Even, if you want to succeed, this must be done. Judging from the sub-lens script, Qian may indeed have a clue in his heart, but it is not as exaggerated as you said! The whole scene was filmed in his mind, After the cut, he even saw it? How is that possible!"

After a pause, UU read www. uukanshu.com He laughed: "No matter how powerful a person is, his brain capacity is limited. Even if he thinks carefully, it is impossible to complete the play directly in his mind, and then go to shoot! Such a person , not a director, but a fairy!"

Zhu Mingyu was speechless, so he shrugged.

As a result, the two of them stopped talking at the same time, and just watched from the window.

It was dark outside the window. The two stood by the window and smoked one by one. Until one cigarette was finished, Han Shunzhang pinched the **** of the cigarette and said, "Go, pack your things, and get off work!"

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