When will I be the queen

Chapter 414 Everyone

Lu Keke had already filmed all the duck scenes for this drama, and was just waiting to edit them in at the end. Oh, if I had known earlier, I would have edited faster so that Cai Cai could see the rough cut and ask her how many ducks she saw.

Cai Cai had no idea that Lu Keke was taking pictures of ducks, but she had indeed seen ducks in her works and she just thought it was an ordinary shot and didn't take it seriously.

  Lu Keke then asked Cai Cai if she had any thoughts on the interrogation scene. What an attentive audience~~~

Cai Cai's idea is that if this scene is to be preserved intact and the audience can still watch it with great concentration, then the acting skills of the two actors who play the roles of Liu He and Captain Zhang must be very good. Not good, but very good. There are many professionals who play villain roles in the circle, and they are very good at playing criminals. But the ones who really become gods for playing criminals are those actors who don't look like villains at all. They just rely on their acting skills to perform the villain's posture.

In fact, the villains and liars in real life are basically not as dramatic as those in movies and TV shows. Most of them have ordinary faces and are even amiable.

There are many people who do facial analysis on the Internet based on photos of wanted criminals or prisoners. Most of them are not worth referring to because when those photos were taken, they were in the state of being executed without disguise. Just saying the answer will not solve the problem. In real life, people's facial features are flexible and changeable. Their faces are different in different emotions, not to mention when they have ulterior motives.

What an actor can do is to perform a role as realistically as possible. Appearance close to the character is a performance method, and the audience is indeed more likely to accept and recognize it, especially for roles with clear distinctions between good and evil. But in terms of artistic evaluation, the more unsimilar the actor's appearance is, the better the performance effect, the higher the evaluation, and the more engaged the audience will be. This is also very simple, it is pure good acting skills.

Cai Cai didn't know who the actors who played Liu He and Captain Zhang were, but if this scene wanted to get good feedback from the audience, either the characters had to be close to the characters or the acting had to be good. But if the characters were close to the characters, Liu Ming's character was still a relatively positive image in the early stage. If the actors had a villainous look, it would be easy for the audience to lose interest.

Lu Keke smiled and nodded. Cai Cai's idea was correct. "If you were asked to shoot it, how would you choose the actors? How would you shoot it?"

Cai Cai thought about it for a moment and treated it as a small talk. "To be honest, for such a simple script, the weight of the characters should be controlled, but this is a suspense theme, criminal investigation, mixed with family, love and friendship. It's a story that wants everything and wants to have everything. I see that you are shooting for a group portrait, and the distribution of the main and supporting roles is not too obvious. The main character is only reflected in the degree of tragedy. Your shooting technique is already very high, and this is the best way to handle it."

"If I were to shoot this script, it would probably only have two characters, one scene, a police officer and a suspect, a full conversation, one take, a condensed version of 40 minutes, an extended version of one hour, and it would be a micro-movie. I don't think it's necessary to make a TV series. There's not a single character here that I think is worth starting a project for."

  "." The Immortal Lord looked at Cai Cai speechlessly, if you want to tell the truth, just tell the truth, why are you being so honest!!!

Lu Keke burst out laughing. The reason why this script was approved was to allow her to earn some pocket money, and it was a sure win. Because suspense is easy to sell. As long as it is not broadcast on TV, you can sell it at any price on the website. It looks like a niche subject, but it is actually easy to sell and you don’t have to worry about traffic. Just blow it up, buy some popular bloggers to promote it, and say and curse about the good and the bad, and the popularity will rise. Casting is to use popular traffic and cheap and affordable veteran actors. You can save money and don’t have to worry about business. The fan economy of traffic is mature, and it can help to cover the bottom line and even make another wave of money.

With Lu Keke's name as a back-up, the audience will naturally buy it. Even if it's ugly, no one will criticize her. If it's good, it's definitely her credit.

"In fact, countless projects in the industry are made up of useless characters. It is true that none of these useless characters are worth taking out individually, but when they are piled together, they become a good project, because no one is out of place, no one is responsible, no one makes mistakes, and no one is outstanding. It is really difficult to make a good-looking ensemble drama where minor supporting roles or even cannon fodder can open a major leading role project. It is easy to become garbage."

Lu Keke was not protesting for herself, she was just saying this, "It's not that I can't shoot, but I'm not interested in this kind of group portrait theme. Some directors who want to shoot group portraits are just lazy and want to fish in troubled waters, because there must be more than one director in the project. Some want to shoot well, but most of them are not capable enough. Jarvis is a god maker, in my opinion, because he is ruthless. He is willing to delete things. He dares to cut off anything that affects his overall situation, no matter how good the character or the plot is. This is something that many directors can't do."

"Some directors want to put all the sunsets they shoot into their feature films. You also shoot things, so you should know how to use the sunset lens."

Cai Cai nodded slightly. Many directors like to use natural scenery such as sunsets, which are highly metaphorical and subjective. But there are only a few who use them well. In many cases, it is not because the director is not capable, but because natural scenery such as sunsets are too subjective. If the plot is not smooth or the actors' acting skills are not up to par, it will be difficult for the audience to empathize with the emotions that the director wants to express through the sunset. Because in the hearts of the audience, there are also one or even several emotions that are exclusive to the sunset, which is a very obvious preconceived imprint of the scenery.

  If the director shoots well and the audience is drawn into the film, then even if they cannot resonate with the preconceived landscape imprint in their minds, they can still use the director's ability to strongly add the director's landscape imprint. This is success. As for unsuccessful shooting, it is good if the audience forgets it after watching it. I am afraid that the audience will complain that the director is pretending to be profound by making up the length of time and using watery shots.

In fact, the scene-imprinted shots have an absolute dominant position in film and television. They are more effective than long scenes of rivalry. For example, in many film and television dramas, the rain shot means killing and cleansing. The wilderness scene symbolizes freedom, the train going away means parting, the high-flying birds are usually compared with imprisonment, the sunrise is more straightforward, new hope or a new round of torture, and the sunset, incomplete ending, perfect, desolate, gentle and brutal, can all be matched. Therefore, the sunset shot is definitely the hardest hit area of ​​the scenes of major film and television dramas, and the usage rate is extremely high.

Good-looking pictures must be used in my works.

  This is the obsession of many directors. In order to achieve this goal, many directors will even use very subjective and forced scenery shots. For example, some directors saw a very brilliant and beautiful sunset when they were heartbroken. Then, the next time they filmed, they waited like crazy for the daylight, waiting for the sunset exactly the same as in their memory, and then filmed it and put it in the film, from the perspective of the protagonist, to express the ending of the protagonist's love breakup. As a result, the audience was distracted and didn't connect with the plot, and thought that the protagonist had succeeded in love.

I don't see eye to eye with this director at all.

But this actually reflects the director's ability to develop the story.

Cai Cai has been with Jarvis for a long time, and what she feels most deeply is the endless world in his mind. Fang Shaoning also has this feeling. But this endless world does not only exist in their minds, but also in their eyes. They will combine the world in their minds with the world they live in, and expand it infinitely. Cai Cai feels that the world in the eyes of directors like them is multi-dimensional. Then they can present the multi-dimensional world in their eyes to the audience in a complete and perfect way.

When she was shooting and editing, she often thought that, in fact, all the film and television works that the audience saw were actually two-dimensional. They were connected by a series of static pictures. A good director's technique can make the two-dimensional picture move, but how it moves and where it moves are all the director's perspective, that is, the world in the director's eyes. The multi-dimensionality in the director's eyes is all perspectives, the protagonist's perspective, the supporting role's perspective, the passerby's perspective, the God's perspective, the audience's perspective, and so on. All these perspectives added together and unfolded are the director's world, and even more so the director's ability.

"Jarvis is not cruel, he is very persistent in his world." Cai Cai agrees with Lu Keke's words, but still wants to express her own thoughts, "Take Empire as an example. Even if we actors meet every day and see each other filming, we still can't figure out the complete plot of Jarvis. For many dramas, we only know the whole plot after watching the broadcast. The director must have the ability to condense the material, and even more so the ability to expand it."

When she first started filming, her perspective was single and too condensed. It looked short and concise, but in fact, there was no possibility of expansion. Good works are wonderful after being cut, condensed, and expanded. However, the market prefers the kind of straight-to-the-end cool story. This is also normal. What the audience likes is what the market needs. What the market needs may not be good works, but it must be good-looking. The audience has different requirements for good-looking, but the cool story will always be accepted by the audience. The plot of Lu Keke's works may not be cool, but the actions from the perspective of the characters will definitely bring great satisfaction to the audience. This is also an alternative cool story. In other words, this is the ability to expand. After all, there are a lot of bloody and violent action scenes in film history, or in other words, action scenes are indispensable content in almost all themes. They are often added to love themes. But whether it is a special action theme work or an added action scene, it is also difficult to make it look good.

But Lu Keke's films are very good. Her works have always been labeled as science fiction, action, and drama. Any of these three genres is fine. But because there are really not many science fiction themes, and Lu Keke has been the only one in this field for many years, her works and her as a director are automatically classified as science fiction based on her fame.

Jarvis's works are labeled as fantasy epic drama action, while Fang Xiaoning's works are Xianxia martial arts drama action. At first, there was no such label as Xianxia, ​​and it was also classified as fantasy martial arts. Later, Fang Xiaoning achieved outstanding results and created the Xianxia universe, which is why there was this label.

Thinking that the person in front of her is a famous director who can directly equate himself and his works with labels, Cai Cai can't understand why the script of this TV short drama is so simple but the filming is so complicated.

  Do Captain Zhang and the people from Liuhe's financing have to have more scenes? If not, then the interrogation scene between these two people is the highlight, the explosive point. It will definitely steal the limelight from the protagonist. This kind of emphasis on the roles will also affect the plot. The most direct impact is that the audience will be attracted by a certain scene. If the other scenes are not outstanding or not as outstanding as this one, they will definitely be ignored. The result of being ignored is that the audience will not be able to connect the plot, will feel confused, and will feel that the director shot it blindly.

It doesn't mean that all the highlights have to be on the protagonist, but the hot spots must be on the protagonist. Otherwise, no matter how successful the drama is, it is still a failure. There is no such situation in film and television dramas where the guest becomes the host. If there is, there must be a problem behind the scenes. If there is no problem behind the scenes, then the director suddenly became demented. Even if it is a group portrait, the protagonist and supporting roles must have hot spots and discussion points, and the protagonist must have 70% more than the supporting roles. This is to stabilize the main line and stabilize the audience.

Lu Keke is definitely not the kind of director who suddenly becomes demented. She must have shot very well, but the script is really simple. It is the director's skill to make it complex and beautiful. But there is a premise: is this really necessary?

From the script, the protagonists are Zheng Ning and Yuan Jie. The two of them have many scenes throughout the whole play, and there are many explosive scenes, but there are also many explosive scenes like the rivalry between Captain Zhang and Liu He. For example, the scene where Wu Cai lied to Yuan Xin's mother and Liu Ming eavesdropped, there were three actors, two bright and one dark, anxious, panicked, urgent and nervous. The three people have their own emotional focus, but they all affect each other. It is actually very simple to shoot this plot, but it is very difficult to shoot it well.

It seems that this great director is deliberately creating difficulties for herself. To say that her filming is complicated, the script is simple, the characters are flat, the plot is even a bit boring, and the suspense and daily life are put together, which is twisted and pretentious. To say that she wants to make it simple, but many scenes can test the director's ability. It looks easy to shoot, but it is not easy to make it look good.

  What on earth are you doing? Are you making things difficult for yourself?

How could Lu Keke not see the confusion on Cai Cai's face? But it seemed a bit embarrassing to say directly that she just wanted to make money but also wanted to maintain her own standards. In front of Cai Cai, she also wanted to be a simple and straightforward person, at least not to let Cai Cai think that she was a fake noble person who was just after money. Besides, if the drama was filmed in this twisted way, the result would definitely be quite good.

"Don't you want to give it a try?" From the moment Cai Cai started reading the script, it was obvious that she had no interest in the role of Bai Yueguang.

Cai Cai glanced at the Immortal Lord and nodded, "I don't feel like I'm the only one who can do it." She flipped through the script and quickly finished reading the entire script. She had basically guessed the rest of the plot.

Yuan Jie is distressed by all the evil people around him, but he doesn't know that the biggest evil person is right next to him. One is Zheng Ning who killed the person he loved with his own hands, and the other is the father who found his daughter's body and hung her up like a doll.

Yes. Yuan Xin was pushed by Liu He and hit her head, and she did faint. But she didn't die. Under Captain Zhang's constant questioning, Liu He confessed that he found Yuan Xin unconscious and took the opportunity to molest her, and threw her out of the car when leaving the market. His idea was to take advantage of her without taking any responsibility, and Yuan Xin would definitely be rescued by someone on the roadside. But when Yuan Xin woke up, she was faced with Zheng Ning's furious face. Zheng Ning saw Yuan Xin lying on the roadside with her clothes in disarray, and thought she was defiled.

Being young and impulsive, Zheng Ning strangled Yuan Xin to death. He was furious and his movements were ruthless and fast. Yuan Xin had just woken up and was in a daze. He could not see the people in front of him clearly. When he was strangled, he did not have time to struggle. He did not even raise his hands much. He kicked a few times before he died.

Impulse is the devil.

When Zheng Ning confessed his crime, he said this. Many times this sentence becomes a joke or teasing, but once this sentence is really implemented, the devil appears. In other words, it is not the impulse that is the devil, but the person who becomes the devil under the impulse. A good person suddenly becomes a devil.

Yuan Xin's father, Yuan Fei, was like this too. On his way home from get off work, he was stopped by a cat. He turned the front of his bicycle and saw his daughter in the stinking ditch on the side of the road, covered by dead branches, rotten leaves and plastic garbage. Yuan Fei recognized the skirt he bought for his daughter. He fell down stupidly and happened to be face to face with his dead daughter. His dead daughter didn't seem so beautiful anymore. Yuan Fei wanted to scream, but couldn't. In a panic, he got up and ran away, stepping on his daughter several times.

He returned to school in a daze, teaching and marking students' homework until the evening self-study class was over. Yuan Fei suddenly seemed to remember that his daughter was dead, in a deep stinking ditch on the side of the road, covered by a garbage bag. As he thought about it, he started to move. By the way, Yuan Fei was a chemistry teacher.

The script didn't specifically describe how he cleaned Yuan Xin and hung her up. There was just a scene where Yuan Fei used the discarded cotton tablecloth from the laboratory to make a white dress for Yuan Xin, and then moved her to the roof. This scene was marked as a simple shot and montage. Cai Cai really wanted to see the storyboard for this scene.

After doing all this, Yuan Fei returned home and saw his anxious wife who couldn't find his daughter. Then he called the police to find her. During this process, Yuan Fei pushed his daughter off the parapet on the roof, leaving her hanging in the air in a white dress, swinging back and forth.

One of the keys to solving the case was that some chemical substance was found on Yuan Xin's skirt. The test was not comprehensive in the early years, but when the case was reopened and comprehensive tests were conducted, new physical evidence was found. Another key to solving the case, which was to confirm that Zheng Ning was the murderer, was the message that Zheng Ning had deleted from Yuan Xin's phone, which also included the information on the communication company's receipt.