The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 155 High-quality drama strategy

When Chen Jingxing was still in the United States, after receiving the information from Xu Wenshen, he went online to watch some video clips of Tian Xinye's web dramas.

Chen Jingxing didn't think that every director had to write his own screenplay, and it was not easy to visualize the script, so after communicating with Tian Xinye, he thought that he was indeed an excellent candidate for the director of the "Signal" TV series.

After the success of three consecutive films, Chen Jingxing has basically established the label of "Chen Jingxing's production must be a boutique" in the hearts of the audience. Let alone the box office, only in terms of word of mouth, "Comet", "Fatal Identity " and "Signal" are currently among the top 250 Douban movies.

Top250 is mainly selected from multiple dimensions such as ratings, number of people who scored and number of favorites, so not only must the score be high enough—usually above 8.5 points, but also the number of people who rated it must be sufficient.

《彗星》以8.5分排在208名，《致命身份》则是8.8分排在第82名，而《信号》目前的评分虽然降到了8.6分，但仍然能在Top250中排名第180位。

Among mainland directors, only Jiang Wen has the number of films nominated in Douban's Top 250.

In the entire Chinese film industry, there are not a few directors who can do this.

Of course, Douban's rating system is actually a very narrow evaluation system, and it is too popular, even extremely commercialized in the eyes of professional film critics-although Douban is already very pretentious in the eyes of many people.

So when it comes to the artistic value of the film, Chen Jingxing is completely a younger brother, basically not ranked among the directors.

However, in the eyes of ordinary audiences, Chen Jingxing has indeed established his own brand. After all, most audiences don't really care much about the artistic value of movies.

Having established a reputation in the movies, Chen Jingxing would naturally not allow his car to turn over in TV dramas.

He wanted to change the phrase "produced by Chen Jingxing, must be a high-quality product" into "produced by DreamWorks, must be a high-quality product".

So even if he is making a TV series, Chen Jingxing needs to keep improving his work. "Signal" already has a very good script. For TV series, a good script is the foundation of everything.

This means that "Signal" already has a relatively high lower limit, and what Chen Jingxing has to do is to try to raise his upper limit.

This requires the matching of the camera language, which is the so-called film texture in popular terms. In his opinion, Tian Xinye's camera language is very good. To put it bluntly, it is better than many directors he knows, including himself.

These few films made by Chen Jingxing are actually better than the script, and the light, shadow and camera are not outstanding. Of course, this does not affect the audience's love to watch his films.

Whether at home or abroad, ordinary people watch movies or TV dramas, but they are actually watching stories. If the story is good, it will cover up all the ugliness.

This is also the reason why Chen Jingxing can only be a commercial director. It is absolutely impossible for him to play light and shadow art like Wang Jiawei.

This thing is talent, and Tian Xinye has such a talent. Chen Jingxing even thinks that without him as a variable, Tian Xinye may completely leave the video platform after another failure and go to play art movies. Maybe he will be in Europe soon. San San saw his figure.

"Signal" will not be the last TV series produced by DreamWorks, so in the eyes of Chen Jingxing, a director like Tian Xinye is very valuable for training. He has a good script here, Tian Xinye has artistic talent, and a good combination can produce high-quality goods. And it doesn't have to be limited to TV series, some of DreamWorks' future film projects can also be directed by him.

Tian Xinye signed the signing agreement in a daze. He still feels a little inconceivable about the sudden olive branch extended by DreamWorks.

To be honest, Penguin Video Network did not treat him badly, and let him direct two web dramas in a row. Although the scripts and actors were not up to him, and the production cost was very tight, he was still very grateful for letting a man who did not A rookie who has directed any film and television drama works will shoot TV dramas as soon as he comes up. Such a decision cannot be made without courage.

That is to say, as an Internet company, Penguin Video Network lacks a foundation in the film and television industry, so that it can generously invest a large amount of money to cultivate director talents, and at the same time strengthen the production experience of self-produced dramas, and by the way support the 18-line stars that have signed contracts under its command.

It may be that Tian Xinye is really unlucky, or maybe he is really not good at carving flowers on shit, and the two online dramas are silent.

Usually for web dramas, double harvest with word-of-mouth is the best result. If word-of-mouth is not good, a good click-through rate is also a good result. However, the two web dramas filmed by Tian Xinye have a bad reputation and a high click-through rate.

Tian Xinye showed a part of the language of the scenes in the play that few viewers cared about. The crotch pulling in the script is obviously not something that light and shadow can remedy, and only some colleagues in the industry praised his shots on Weibo.

Tian Xinye himself was also worried, and was even hit hard by it. Although Penguin Video Network did not directly kick him out, maybe it was because he was unwilling to pay the liquidated damages, or maybe he wanted to save some sympathy and wanted to break up automatically after the contract expired. Anyway, no project was given to him.

After being vacant for half a year, the contract he signed with Penguin Video Network did not include the provision of timely salary payment. The salary he received for the two online dramas was not much. In order to support his family, Tian Xinye finally made up his mind and was going to find Several advertising companies applied for directors and assistant directors, and if they couldn't, they would be storyboard illustrators.

Unexpectedly, Penguin Video Network suddenly told him about DreamWorks' recruitment of directors, and told him that he was already on the shortlist.

Of course, he knew about DreamWorks. Although the big stars in the film industry are far inferior to Penguin Video Network in size, in the eyes of directors like him, their status is much higher than that of video platforms. Director is also a rare qualification, and he is still in the film industry. For him, as long as he doesn't shoot commercials, he can accept it.

As a result, DreamWorks provided him with a contract in an astonishingly fast manner. Within five years, he would shoot three film and television dramas for DreamWorks. During the filming of film and television dramas, DreamWorks will pay the film normally.

And there is a signing fee of 150 million!
"I heard that you have a habit when filming TV dramas. You have to draw storyboards before shooting?"

Hearing this question from Chen Jingxing, Tian Xinye was a little flustered, and drawing storyboards for filming TV dramas sounds a little outrageous in the current Huaguo.

Most of the dramas with [-] or [-] episodes, [-] or [-] episodes are filmed within two to three months, which is shorter than the shooting time of many movies. According to this shooting, the shooting time is going to explode, and the crew will spend too much money Not to mention, an actor's schedule is very valuable, how can he have the time to spend half a year with a drama.

Tian Xinye just started filming web dramas because of his habit of drawing storyboards, which delayed the shooting progress, and the producer was dissatisfied at the time.

"Don't worry, Director Chen, I won't delay the shooting progress, and I don't draw storyboards for every shot..."

Chen Jingxing said with a smile: "That's not what I mean. What I like is your composition and camera language. It's a good habit to draw storyboards, just draw them!"

After finishing speaking, he pulled out a script: "Here, this is the script of "Signal". While watching it, you can conceive the storyboard and give full play to your artistic talent."

(End of this chapter)