What kind of bad thoughts can the director have?

Chapter 20 Little Poplar

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Shu returned to Pinghu Film and Television City with his red backpack on his back.

Everything is familiar, and there is a scent of laurel in the wind, which is no different from when I left.

If you arrive at the Qin Palace before three o'clock, you can still witness the Emperor Qin's ascension to the throne. In the evening, Wu Song wears flowers for the last time to parade through the streets. I don't know who played the role of Yangshu Yanggu County Street Liuzi.

The Siwei Hotel is very large, the lobby on the first floor is very spacious, and more than one crew set up a stage to report.

The signboard of the production crew of "The Legend of Miyue" is very conspicuous. After finding Yang Shu's name, the middle-aged woman in charge of reporting feebly pushed a notebook: "First register here, sign your name, leave your mobile phone number, and then report to the photography team .”

After signing the name, you will be included in the group, and then go to the photography team on the seventh floor to get the room key.

There were six or seven men and women smoking in a room. Amidst the smoke, a round-faced middle-aged man in a black T-shirt and baseball cap asked Yang Shu, "What is your name Yang?"

"My name is Poplar."

Someone hummed: "A little poplar, growing next to the outpost, with deep roots and strong stems..."

It sounded like a good-natured ridicule, and everyone laughed in unison.

"Little Baiyang is easier to remember." The round-faced middle-aged man didn't smile: "Do you know how to read the light meter? Have you measured the light?"

The light meter is used to measure the exposure of photography, but anyone who has studied directing can operate it proficiently, Yang Shu nodded: "Yes."

The man glanced at him, then turned around and took out a light meter from a pile of backpacks and threw it over, pointing to two places in the room: "Report it to me."

Without further ado, Yang Shu reported the measured data of the two positions to him.

The round-faced man checked the light meter without saying anything, and handed Yang Shu a room card: "If you don't snore, you can share a room with Lao Li."

Later, Yang Shu knew that this person was the photographer of Group A, Xie Ze, who was well-known in the industry and had worked with many famous directors. He served as an assistant photographer for Feng Xiaogang's "Assembly" and Zhang Yimou's "Three Guns Surprise". He started to cooperate with director Zheng Xiaolong the year before last. , successively acted as a photographer in the TV series "The Legend of Zhen Huan", "The Legend of Miyue" and next year's "Red Sorghum".

"Legend of Miyue" was filmed by two film crews, and Group B has already gone to Bashang Grassland to shoot some war scenes.

Lao Li, who shared the room with Yang Shu, was not old. He looked about forty, thin, tall, haggard, taciturn, and severely nervous. .

He also likes to drink strong tea. He said he can't sleep at night, and he can't lift his spirits if he doesn't drink strong tea or smoke during the day. Anyway, the vicious circle is coming to an end.

He is not a camera crew, but an electrician in the crew, responsible for laying lines to ensure power supply.

Living with such a person for more than three months is undoubtedly difficult for a normal person, but Yang Shu doesn't care, try to cooperate with the other person's schedule, and tolerate him getting up in the middle of the night to smoke one by one in the toilet, although the two of them have rarely communicated. But I don't feel embarrassed.

The standard room conditions of the hotel are still good. After staying in the hotel, the first thing Yang Shu does is to open his laptop and search the Internet for the preview of "Lovers at the Table" on various platforms.

In fact, after midnight today, he started to use his mobile phone to frequently browse the apps of various platforms, but he never saw the preview information, and he didn't give up until he was a little bit faster.

The page should only be updated during working hours. Liu Man and Jiang Shiyu have also been browsing since the morning. The strange thing is that several platforms have not been there.

The three of them were a little anxious, guessing various possibilities, and finally Liu Man went to ask Nie Wen, and the reply was that they would go online one after another after two o'clock.

On the bus from Hangzhou East Railway Station to Jiaxing Pinghu at one o'clock, Yang Shu swiped the platform again, but the notice still hasn't come out. It seems that just like the previous Tuesday afternoon when all TV stations maintain equipment together, there is also a tacit understanding in this aspect in the industry.

It was already 02:30, Yang Shu turned on the computer and scanned several platforms again, the trailer had already come out, and the first one to scan was Youku, he was excited for a while looking at the screen.

"The last trailer was more strenuous than an enlarged prostate!"

At about the same time, Jiang Shiyu posted a few photos of the interior of Liu Tao's private jet in the group. There is WIFI, almost everything.

"Yang Shu, we're getting on the plane, and we're expected to arrive at Pinghu at five o'clock, and we'll be picked up at the entrance of the hotel."

There is only one old military airport in Jiaxing, and it is currently planning to expand it into a military-civilian dual-use, so their planes can only fly to Shanghai, and then come directly from the airport.

In the movie channels of several major platforms, there is a preview column, "The Lover at the Table" is put together with some works whose names have not been heard. When you click in, you have to watch a 30-second advertisement first, members can skip it, and then there is a 1-minute preview piece.

The flowers in the trailer are cut from poplar trees, which must be used for publicity. Instead of letting the editors of the platform mess around, it is better to prepare them yourself.

The advertisement line is a line in the play, which was also chosen by Yang Shu: I come from the future, and I just want to encourage you who are at the lowest point now.

He originally wanted to use: No matter how sad you are now and how difficult your life is, you will be happy in the future.

However, there are a lot of shots of Guo Minkai and Liu Man in the commercial, so it is easy to be misunderstood as the story is about the grandfather comforting the granddaughter, which is not attractive.

The ad did not mention hype such as "Romance on Lushan Mountain" Guo Minkai and "Little Liu Tao" Liu Man, but the cover of the video shows the two sitting affectionately facing each other in a restaurant. A picture is worth many words.

Yang Shu immediately took a picture of the screen and sent it to the group. Liu Man and Jiang Shiyu were very excited and sent various expressions to cheer the screen.

At present, the platform still displays the number of clicks. Later, some works were bought by the trolls to falsify the click data, which messed up the market. All the major platforms removed the number of clicks, leaving only comments, likes and collection data.

The trailer has just been launched, there are only a few clicks, and there are no comments or favorites yet.

Yang Shu reminded himself to try not to pay too much attention to these data in the next week, so as not to fall into unnecessary anxiety. A one-minute trailer can't bring anything to the audience. The number of hits and comments are useless, and the number of favorites can't be too high.

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In fact, the role of the preview is limited. Works like "The Lovers at the Table" usually need to be driven by word of mouth or invest a lot of marketing expenses.

Although Director Ke's attitude has changed, Nie Wen even came to ask for the script draft, but the changes are quite limited, and there is no plan to market "Lovers at the Table". Liu Man asked more than once this month, and all he got was vague answers.

As far as Ruhe is concerned, the biggest marketing of "Lovers at the Table" is to find a way to arrange it to be broadcast on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Yang Shu walked to the window and could see the archway in Songcheng from a distance, but he couldn't sort out the emotions in his heart.

In a sense, this film and television city is his birthplace in this world, and the three-month cycle starts again and again, hoping to bring good luck.

When it was almost five o'clock, Liu Man first sent a message in the group: "We will arrive at the hotel in 15 minutes."

Then I sent him a separate message: "There is a lot of luggage and the children are making trouble, I have to come down to help, wear a white shirt, my sister wants to see you too."

(End of this chapter)