my crew is not human

Chapter 19 Preparation
After sending the three of them away, Li Xianyun returned to the room and said with a smile, "Come out, you did a good job this time."

Three ghosts fluttered and appeared in front of Li Xianyun.

Before Ren Zhi and the others came, Li Xianyun had already explained to them, and even practiced in advance. Finally, although the three ghosts had different tempers, they still knew how to cooperate.

But after the cooperation was over, the starved ghost Jingui said, "I want to pay you too!"

"And me!" Zhang Yan said.

Xu Liangshan couldn't speak, and nodded wildly while controlling the teacup, but unfortunately there was water in the cup, so he directly peed on Li Xianyun's pants.

"What's the use of you asking for money? Can you spend it?" Li Xianyun jumped angrily, damn it, his pants are all wet.

"I want to eat." Jin Gui replied.

"You can't eat enough."

"Eat it too." Jingui said in a daze.

Li Xianyun thought for a while and said, "I'll give you three meals a day."

"not enough."

"Done and add snacks."

"Yes!" Jin Gui nodded.

Li Xianyun looked at Zhang Yan again, Zhang Yan bared her teeth: "Be happy!"

Damn, it's true that all romantic ghosts want to be romantic after death.

"No!" Li Xianyun refused righteously.

"Givenchy." Zhang Yan changed her words.

You still want Givenchy?

Yes, this is obsession, it 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, and Givenchy has become her obsession.

A Givenchy Forbidden Kiss costs two or three hundred at the cheapest.

Li Xianyun said: "One a week."

Zhang Yan nodded.

Li Xianyun looked at the old man ghost.

Xu Liangshan didn't speak, but suddenly pulled Jingui over, beat him violently, and directly beat Jingui to a weak state.

have to.

This is his salary.

Li Xianyun looked at the old man ghost: "Beating once a week?"

The old man shook his head and raised three fingers.

"Once every three days?"

The old man nodded.

Jingui yelled, "No way!"

Li Xianyun said to the starving ghost: "I'll give you extra meals. Every time you beat me up, you'll get three extra meals."

"Ten meals, seafood, I like salmon!" Jingui shouted.

He was so picky about food.

Li Xianyun: "Five meals, including a meal of salmon, no more than [-] grams."

Now that I'm poor, Li Xianyun said that I have to be tough.

"Deal!" The starving ghost is helpless, you are the master and your boss!

The wages of the three ghosts are settled in this way.

The next step is to change the script and make a plan. It is best to use the shots taken before, which brings great difficulty to the script revision.

For this reason, Li Xianyun looked at the captured content, and repeatedly checked which ones could be retained, which ones could not, and how to make changes based on the existing content.

Compared with before, it can be said that Li Xianyun's script writing is extremely easy this time.

You must know that movies are the product of teamwork, each position has its own role, and it exerts different effects.

Take the script as an example. Although the script is written by the screenwriter, in fact, the producer, director, actor and producer all have a certain right to speak about the script, but their thinking is different.

When a screenwriter writes a script, he considers two things: First, the story is good-looking.Two, the characters are brilliant.

The producer's request for the script is from an operational point of view, for example: I know a boss over there who can give us a free venue.You can't use this hospital scene now, you change it to a dental clinic for me... Ren Zhi has done this before.

The director's perspective on the script is to start from the screen, for example: Don't use lines if the story can be told with the screen, and a big gold watch is unveiled at the beginning, I don't care if your gold watch is a foreshadowing?Show up as soon as I ask... Rong Dasheng has done this before.

The producer's perspective on the script is from the perspective of investors, for example: investors want to advertise their own brands, and your core props have to be changed.Our investor is a handbag merchant, yes, this savior must be a handbag.I don't care how your handbag saves the world?That's something for you to think about... a lot of people have done this kind of thing.

The actor's perspective on the script is based on his own needs, for example: this character is too bad, and it is not good for my image.I don't care if you play the villain or not?What happened to Daji?There must be a bright spot, change it for me... a bunch of big guys have done it.

This is only considered from the perspective of position. Everyone also has their own artistic creation concept, personality, style, and different views and pursuits on things.There is no literature, don't care if you understand it or not, you can get a script and give you a few words.

That's not enough, sometimes you have to consider the need for awards, so you need to be warm, to heal, to have humanistic care, to think philosophically, and to sublimate the theme!
You want this and that, do you want a pile of shit for you?
So it’s hard work to be a screenwriter. On the contrary, there are few people in financial, taxation, legal programmers and other technical professions who can poke casually-the threshold is high, and if you don’t understand, you don’t understand. ".

In short, the result is that the screenwriters compromised among these countless requirements.

Eventually when you satisfy everyone, the script becomes mediocre.

But on the other hand, as a mass product and a high-investment product, movies themselves strive to be responsible to the largest number of people, so real commercial films are precisely made in this way-most top commercial blockbusters have mediocre scripts, but It can be sold well because it is aimed at satisfying the needs of most people.

But to meet the needs of most people, it must be simple.

Only simple, square unity!

So it's not that screenwriters can't write good stories, but because of the continuous weakening caused by various demands, the level of scripts drops again and again, while the film and commercialization itself are improving.

As a result, the spectators entered the theater one after another while cursing the story as bad, and at the same time couldn't figure out why it took a year to polish such a mediocre story, but they didn't know that behind those mediocrity were countless concessions, compromises and balance considerations.

So it can also be understood that this is a necessary price, but the unlucky ones are always the screenwriters-as the party who is sacrificed, it is others who make achievements, and they are the ones who are scolded.

This time, Li Xianyun himself is the producer, producer, producer and director, and there are no big names to guide him, and he does not need to consider the big market, so the script is highly relaxed and efficient, and it only took one day to complete. The first draft, and then self-monitoring and revision, trying to read the script from different angles.

This depends on the individual's self-awareness ability. Those with strong self-awareness ability can do it by themselves with the highest efficiency and the best results.

Those who do not have strong self-awareness will immediately become shit without other people's assistance-other people's opinions can help you or lead you astray.

I was working hard to revise today, when suddenly the phone rang.

It was Jiang Meier calling.

"Mr. Screenwriter, I heard that you are going to take over the crew?" Jiang Meier cut straight to the point.

"Well, yes, how do you know?" Li Xianyun asked.

"Ren Zhi came over and said that he wanted to keep some people, but because he had to change the script, he couldn't start filming for the time being. He wanted to make an appointment with us to re-shoot. I heard that you took over the film, so I wanted to ask about it."

Li Xianyun smiled and said: "Promise him, the script should be corrected soon, and then the filming will start directly."

"Then the shots taken before are all wasted?"

"Well, I'm trying to find a way to keep some, especially that Zhang Yao, who is a star after all, and keeping her shots will have a publicity effect, so I can raise some grades." Li Xianyun said with a headache while looking at the camera.

The rest of the crew is easy to change, but the actors are the most troublesome.

Jiang Meier said: "Zhang Yao doesn't want to continue acting, have you ever thought about finding someone else to replace her? I mean use a substitute."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Jiang Meier said: "If Zhang Yao wants to break the contract, it is reasonable to return all the money. But she will definitely not take the initiative to pay, and it will take time to go to court. I am thinking, if I can find a substitute to play her part, The condition is that she doesn’t have to refund her film salary, which may be a solution.”

The other actors don't have much money, few roles, and no fame, so they can be changed if they change. The key is Zhang Yao.

This woman had already received half of her film salary before, and she didn't want to get back the money, and she didn't want to act in the play, it was a trouble.It would indeed be a way to replace her with someone else.

"Where can I find such a similar person?" Li Xianyun asked.

Hands and nudes are easy to replace, but if you can replace your face, what do you need actors for?
Jiang Meier gritted her teeth: "What do you think of me?"

Ok?
Li Xianyun was startled.

But thinking about it carefully, Jiang Meier and Zhang Yao do have some similarities in appearance, coupled with makeup magic to make up for it, if it doesn't work, you can add a plot, the heroine was injured and did some facial repair...

There are always more ways than difficulties.

Li Xianyun understood: "Do you want to participate?"

"Yeah." Jiang Meier smiled and said, "Actually, who hasn't dreamed of being an actor?"

Li Xianyun smiled and said: "You make a pose, take a video, and I'll see if it works."

"Hey!" Jiang Meier excitedly agreed.

Two hours later, Jiang Meier posted a video of her lines, not to mention, it was very similar to Zhang Yao.

He speaks his lines well, although his acting skills are not very good, but with a good training, it shouldn't be a big problem.

This made Li Xianyun very satisfied: "I think, the key is this way, my script will be easier to write."

Not all the actors have to leave, but because Zhang Yao is the leading actor, she will affect the whole body when she leaves.

Now that Zhang Yao's matter has been resolved, many subsequent troubles have also been resolved.

Li Xianyun immediately called Zhang Yao, directly expressing that she can not pursue her responsibility for breach of contract, but the rest of her scenes will be completed by a double in her name, Zhang Yao must authorize, and then spend a day to make up some scenes , No need to shoot in a haunted house.

If you disagree, I will post your last video.

As soon as Zhang Yao heard that she didn't want to refund the money by herself, but only cooperated for one day, she immediately agreed and asked for the video to be deleted.

One big problem is solved, and there are countless small problems left.

At this time, the role of Ren Zhi came out. As an old man in the film and television industry, he is indeed familiar with this aspect.

So in the following days, Li Xianyun and Ren Zhi discussed the script and specific shooting.

Occasionally, Li Xianyun will also ask Rong Dasheng for advice, asking Rong Dasheng to give guidance on the camera, help him draw storyboards, and participate in post-editing. The condition is that he will not be held liable for breach of contract, and he can also add " His name is Rong Dasheng.

Rong Dasheng raised eight fingers: 5000 yuan.

Li Xianyun agreed.

Just like that, rookie director Li Xianyun, writer Li Da, screenwriter, producer, producer, investor, started his first filming preparations.

It took Li Xianyun three days to finally revise the script and name it "Ghost War in the Secret Room".

Super low name, but that's what commercial movies want.

To point the question, there are secret rooms and ghosts, which are the core selling points of this movie.

Ren Zhi once wanted to call it "Female Ghost vs. Trick House", but was rejected by Li Xianyun. You are too low.

At the same time, Ren Zhi also tried his best to persuade Yang Enjun and others to continue to participate in the shooting, which increased the available materials for the original shooting, and then replaced a group of technicians.

Then you can boot.

Before the shooting started, Li Xianyun made a rule: Since this shooting uses high-tech means, including holographic projection technology, magnetic confinement and other means, and involves commercial secrets, no one is allowed to inquire about it. Confidentiality agreement for the whole process of filming.

(End of this chapter)